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African migrants in Israel have been detained, threatened with deportation and faced hostility from lawmakers and residents. Since last year, they face another burden: a de facto 20 percent salary cut that has driven them further into poverty.
Israel’s roughly 35,000 African migrants and the groups that support them say the recent law — in which Israel withholds the money from their paychecks every month and returns it only if they leave the country — is yet another attempt by an anti-migrant government to force them out.
“I feel that they started the ‘deposit law’ to make our life miserable,” said Salamwit Willedo, a migrant from Eritrea who came to Israel in 2010. “We suffer for eight years here. If I had a country, why am I living here?”
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Kharron
I guess it's better than gassing people. Not that far from it, though, and I would say definitely on the same path.
Nice hyperbole.
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Kharron
I guess it's better than gassing people. Not that far from it, though, and I would say definitely on the same path.
Nice hyperbole.
originally posted by: Kharron
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Kharron
I guess it's better than gassing people. Not that far from it, though, and I would say definitely on the same path.
Nice hyperbole.
Why? If such practices are allowed to flourish, camps are only 5 to 10 years away. That to me is not that far.
originally posted by: Kharron
Imagine being a migrant, legally working within a country and getting taxed on your income, being a productive member of the society and then learn that a Deposit Law has gone into effect.
originally posted by: Kharron (hypothetically paraphrasing)
Imagine being an illegal immigrant, being more or less tolerated working within a nation for some period of time, and then the host nation (which you are effectively a parasite within) puts its foot down and start giving you the boot.
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
originally posted by: Kharron
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Kharron
I guess it's better than gassing people. Not that far from it, though, and I would say definitely on the same path.
Nice hyperbole.
Why? If such practices are allowed to flourish, camps are only 5 to 10 years away. That to me is not that far.
You're saying it like it's inevitable, there's no reason to assume that.
Did they say that they're on temperary visas? If so at least it will be money to go back with, and pay for travel.
originally posted by: Kharron
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
originally posted by: Kharron
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Kharron
I guess it's better than gassing people. Not that far from it, though, and I would say definitely on the same path.
Nice hyperbole.
Why? If such practices are allowed to flourish, camps are only 5 to 10 years away. That to me is not that far.
You're saying it like it's inevitable, there's no reason to assume that.
Did they say that they're on temperary visas? If so at least it will be money to go back with, and pay for travel.
Some of these people have no country to go to. The country is either still engaged in war and genocide or it has been dissolved or taken over by another. They have no place to go and have no country of their own; they have become a part of Israel and work and mind their own business.
They are a literal parallel of Jews minding their own business and being productive in pre-WW2 Germany and then being singled out based on ethnicity and religion. It is the same scenario but the oppressor, as history often does, is now reversed.
It's not inevitable, everything can be stopped in time, but if left unchecked they're on that path.
in which Israel withholds the money from their paychecks every month and returns it only if they leave the country
originally posted by: BlueJacket
a reply to: Kharron
I guess Im engaging in "what about" but what about all the farmers being murdered in S Africa, Namibia etc...? why dont you ever beat their drum? its always USA this and Israel that...
Frankly, the rest of the world learned freedom from right here.
Would it suck to have a tax imposed on income...sure, it sucks here too
originally posted by: projectvxn
a reply to: Kharron
I guess it's better than gassing people. Not that far from it, though, and I would say definitely on the same path.
This is, by far, the dumbest thing posted on ATS today.
Unbelievable.
originally posted by: BlueJacket
a reply to: seeker1963
wow, I had no idea, good for them.
originally posted by: seeker1963
originally posted by: Kharron
originally posted by: CriticalStinker
originally posted by: Kharron
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: Kharron
I guess it's better than gassing people. Not that far from it, though, and I would say definitely on the same path.
Nice hyperbole.
Why? If such practices are allowed to flourish, camps are only 5 to 10 years away. That to me is not that far.
You're saying it like it's inevitable, there's no reason to assume that.
Did they say that they're on temperary visas? If so at least it will be money to go back with, and pay for travel.
Some of these people have no country to go to. The country is either still engaged in war and genocide or it has been dissolved or taken over by another. They have no place to go and have no country of their own; they have become a part of Israel and work and mind their own business.
They are a literal parallel of Jews minding their own business and being productive in pre-WW2 Germany and then being singled out based on ethnicity and religion. It is the same scenario but the oppressor, as history often does, is now reversed.
It's not inevitable, everything can be stopped in time, but if left unchecked they're on that path.
Yet you came to my country as a refugee and sit there on your high horse and bash my country? No thanks! Go back where you came from! We want people who want to live here not destroy our country to make it like the snip hole they left.
Bad enough you show your hatred for a country that opened it's doors and took you in, but to get on your computer and bash other countries is BS!
What country do I have to move to if I allow people like you to destroy it?