Israel enacts law allowing authorities to detain illegal migrants for up to 3 years - Haaretz
By Dana Weiler-Polak | Jun.03, 2012
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Until now, migrants caught by IDF have been transferred to the Saharonim detention facility in the south; Interior Minister says migrants do not recognize that Israel ’belongs to the white man.’
A law granting Israeli authorities the power to detain illegal migrants for up to three years came into effect on Sunday, in the wake of widening public controversy over the influx of African migrants who cross into Israel along its border with Egypt.