mohandasgandhi:

Israel’s interior minister said on Friday he hoped to soon start moving tens of thousands of illegal African migrants from Tel Aviv and elsewhere to a detention camp being built and a planned “tent city.”

An Israeli court cleared the way on Thursday for the deportation of an estimated 1,500 South Sudanese, after ruling that their lives were no longer threatened in their homeland.

Interior Minister Eli Yishai told public radio 40,000 Sudanese and Eritreans were next in his sights.

“There are still about 15,000 from north Sudan and some 35,000 from Eritrea,” he said. “I am not allowed to get them out at the moment.”

He said he expected legal obstacles would be removed and that the government was also offering a grant to those prepared to leave voluntarily.

“They are close to being expelled either willingly or against their will,” he said. “This is a number that threatens the Jewish identity.”

As a first step, he said, illegals would be rounded up and moved to a detention centre being built in southern Israel at a projected cost of 250 million shekels ($6.7 million, 5.4 million euros).

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I never want to hear “but Israel isn’t racist” ever again.

The only democracy in the Middle East.