The migrant issue

With regard to “Interior issues notices of deportation to migrants” (February 5), about 12 years ago, before we made aliya, my husband and I were here on a “getting to know the country” trip. We drove along the Egyptian border to Eilat and were shocked to see that the border fence was broken-down wire netting, in places lying on the ground.

The blame for the arrival of so many Africans should be laid firmly at the feet of the governments that allowed the border to be open like this. They were not interested in keeping out the Beduin drug dealers or the Romanian prostitutes, but suddenly, when we got flooded by non-Jewish asylum seekers, they could spend a few billion on a border fence.

The Netanyahu government bused the asylum seekers to South Tel Aviv and said they couldn’t work legally. What did it think would happen?

The problem can be easily fixed without dragging the name of Israel in the mud. Just replace the foreign workers in the agricultural sector with Africans. This would distribute them around the country, get them working legally and give them temporary visas. GERALDINE THEMAL Kiryat Tivon