'We don't have another country' - Features - Al Jazeera English

'We don't have another country' - Features - Al Jazeera English
Activists and human rights groups also consider the planned expulsion unjust because many of the parents facing deportation are migrant labourers who arrived legally on Israeli-issued work visas. While Israel lacks laws regarding non-Jewish immigration, it revokes the visas of migrant workers who have children in Israel - a policy many critics consider inhumane."The deportation is a continuation of the state treating [migrant workers] as though they were machines," Ilan remarked.Some Israeli officials, including Yishai, have labelled migrant workers and African refugees a threat to the Jewish character of the state. Similar language, of course, has been used about the country's Palestinian population, which as finance minister in 2003, Binyamin Netanyahu, the current prime minister, referred to as a "demographic problem".
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