Eritrean Migrants: Desert Jail and Israeli Authorities

eritrean migrants: He also hoped to avoid the fate of compatriots who languished in a notorious desert jail for illegally staying in Israel, according to Toronto Star. So in an emotional confrontation with immigration officials one day last November, the 29-year-old sous chef accepted what Israeli authorities were offering 3,500 in cash and a one-way ticket to Uganda or Rwanda. He could not dare return to his native Eritrea, a country he risked his life to flee in 2010. Two weeks later he was on a flight to Uganda, together with five other Eritrean migrants he did not know. It's forced. They told me, If you don't leave you are going to jail,' Tesfagabr recalled. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.