Dozens of Filipino schoolchildren and their mothers are protesting outside the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem against the arrest of three Filipino workers and four children during immigration raids this week in central Israel, as authorities appeared to accelerate their efforts to deport approximately 50 children of foreign workers over the course of the summer.
The children, born in Israel, are shouting, “I’m an Israeli child, don’t deport me,” “All my life I’ve lived in Israel,” “ Bibi please, we don’t have anywhere else, let us stay please.”
Filipino workers and their kids protest against the arrest and deportations of children of foreign workers in Israel outside the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem on July 24, 2019. (Sue Surkes)
The protesters are also chanting slogans in support of Michael, Katrin and Kian, the three children that were arrested earlier this week and are awaiting deportation
On Sunday, immigration enforcement agents arrested a mother and son in their home in Yehud, central Israel. On Tuesday, agents broke into the Ramat Gan home of Geraldine Esta and arrested her and her two children, along with an unidentified second woman and infant.
— Sue Surkes
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