How Israel and Australia's offshore migration policies achieved varying levels of success

African migrants demonstrate against the offshore
migration policy outside the Embassy of Rwanda in Herzliya,
 Israel in 2018 - JACK GUEZ

Israel launched its own contentious bid to send asylum seekers to Rwanda eight years ago, but the scheme was scrapped after mass protests, international criticism and a suspension by the supreme court.

From 2014 to 2017, Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israel’s prime minister, sent around 4,000 Africans to Rwanda under a “voluntary departure” scheme.

According to Amnesty International, asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan were given $3,500 (£2,600) and a travel ticket to Rwanda, as an alternative to “indefinite detention.”

By James Rothwell.

Full story at Yahoo News.