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04.11.2012. Premier tells cabinet that 54 migrants crossed border in October and were all taken into custody- a steep decline from the some 2,000 migrants who came through monthly in mid-2012.
Israel has stopped the unapproved influx of African migrants across its border with Egypt, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday after months of intensive counter-measures on the once porous desert frontier.
More than 60,000 African migrants have walked into Israel in recent years, some seeking work and others refuge. They have stirred fear for public order and demographics and prompted the government to build a fortified and closely patrolled fence between Israel and the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula.
Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday that 54 migrants crossed the border in October and were all taken into custody- a steep decline from the some 2,000 migrants who came through monthly in mid-2012, many of them settling in Israeli cities.
