Grand Master Melon
2nd August 2010, 03:06 AM
by Edmund Sanders - Aug. 2, 2010 12:00 AM
Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM - Israel moved Sunday to deport the offspring of hundreds of migrant workers, mostly small children who were born in Israel, speak Hebrew and have never seen their parents' native countries.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the new policy was intended to stem a flood of illegal aliens, whose children receive state-funded education and health-care benefits, and to defend Israel's Jewish identity.
"On the one hand, this problem is a humanitarian problem," Netanyahu said during a meeting Sunday of the Cabinet, which had debated the move for nearly a year. "We all feel and understand the hearts of children. But on the other hand, there are Zionist considerations and ensuring the Jewish character of the state of Israel.
"We don't want to create an incentive for the inflow of hundreds of thousands of illegal migrant workers."
Rest of the story here (http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/08/02/20100802mideast-migrants0802.html)
Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM - Israel moved Sunday to deport the offspring of hundreds of migrant workers, mostly small children who were born in Israel, speak Hebrew and have never seen their parents' native countries.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the new policy was intended to stem a flood of illegal aliens, whose children receive state-funded education and health-care benefits, and to defend Israel's Jewish identity.
"On the one hand, this problem is a humanitarian problem," Netanyahu said during a meeting Sunday of the Cabinet, which had debated the move for nearly a year. "We all feel and understand the hearts of children. But on the other hand, there are Zionist considerations and ensuring the Jewish character of the state of Israel.
"We don't want to create an incentive for the inflow of hundreds of thousands of illegal migrant workers."
Rest of the story here (http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/08/02/20100802mideast-migrants0802.html)