In a move that many people are viewing as bigotry and racism, Israel said today (January 3, 2018) that it would pay thousands of African immigrants living illegally in the nation to leave, threatening them with jail if they are caught after the end of March, according to the AOL website.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a barrier Israel completed in 2013 along its border with Egypt had cut off a stream of "illegal infiltrators" from Africa after some 60,000 crossed the desert frontier.
The vast majority came from Eritrea and Sudan and many said they fled war and persecution as well as economic hardship, but Israel treats them as economic migrants.
Teklit Michael, a 29-year-old asylum seeker from Eritrea living in Tel Aviv, said in response to the Israeli plan that it was akin to "human trafficking and smuggling."
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