Latest Breaking News
In reply to the discussion: Israeli Army’s Social Media Director Poses as Obama in Blackface [View all]azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Huge detention centre to be Israel's latest weapon in migration battle
A vast detention complex is rising from the sandy grounds of Ktzi'ot prison in the Negev desert, close to Israel's border with Egypt, which will become the world's largest holding facility for asylum seekers and migrants.
When it is completed, at an initial cost of £58m to the Israeli government, it will be capable of holding up to 11,000 people.
Despite unprecedented protests at rising costs of living, and increased threats to national security in a volatile, post-Arab spring Middle East, immigration is of such paramount importance to Binyamin Netanyahu's coalition that it has skimmed a minimum of 2% from every ministry's budget to fund the construction and start-up costs of the building.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/17/detention-centre-israel-migration