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How were they treated in Egypt again? LOL, is there even a comparison! The kindest of these individuals warms my heart, but the usual suspects (Jose, Iban, Athena, PH) will ignore this.

Families take in Sudanese refugees | Jerusalem Post

Families take in Sudanese refugees By SHEERA CLAIRE FRENKEL Print Subscribe E-mail Toolbar Dozens of Sudanese refugee families are being lodged in private homes across the country, in an effort to thwart the government's plan to move them to a camping site outside the Ketziot prison this week. Volunteers have been quietly arranging for refugee families to move into the homes since early last week, when Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that most of them would be deported to Egypt. "Until their safety is assured, we cannot deport them," said Elisheva Milikosky, a student activist from Beersheba who has helped house the refugees. "If we, a group of students, can find kind families to take these people in, why can't the government, with its infinite resources, come up with something better than a detention camp at Ketziot and eventually deportation to Egypt?" An official at the Public Security Ministry told The Jerusalem Post the camping site would be ready by early next week. "It is up to police to decide when to begin moving the refugees to the site," said the official. He added that only "floaters," as he described those refugees who have not been absorbed into some type of program, would be moved to the site. Volunteers have been scrambling to find solutions for those "floaters" to minimize the number of people sent to Ketziot. Those solutions are happening on a case-by-case basis, with organizations around the country pitching in to offer room, board and occasionally jobs for the refugees. Last week, there were more than 200 refugees in Beersheba. However, an inquiry by the Post showed that on Sunday, only a handful were left, as almost all had been moved to other locations throughout the country. Since the refugees have no status in Israel, most of their housing has been arranged by private organizations and volunteers. The legality of moving refugees to private homes has been questioned, however, since volunteers are declining to reveal the exact locations of the refugees.