Israel Divided Over 'Illegal' Children
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
"TEL AVIV, Nov 2 (IPS) - "Migrant workers bring with them a profusion of diseases - hepatitis, measles, tuberculosis, AIDS and drug addiction: Our critics can be as sanctimonious as they like, but unless we stop the wave of migrant workers, the whole character of the State of Israel, its Jewish character, will be under threat."
The resort by Israel's Interior Minister Eli Yishai to a blatant racist stereotype is the latest outburst in an increasingly heated public debate about the fate of migrant workers whose permits have been revoked because they had children while working in Israel.
Israelis are grappling emotionally with the fate of the 1,800 children born in their country to foreign workers and now under threat of deportation along with their parents......"
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