Justice minister: Migrant law battle shows need for constitution

11 August 2015, 8:11 pm

Edit

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked responds to the High Court’s decision to slash detentions of illegal African migrants at the Holot center to just one year, instead of 20 months, saying the court “decided now on a fateful issue.”

“It’s important that in a functional democratic state, the definition of powers and responsibilities of different authorities be clear,” she says. “We didn’t need to arrive at the third debate on the issue of the migrant law, and the hands of the legislative authorities didn’t need to be tied in the way they were. This is the reason for the necessity of a constitution, which will bring order to the powers between the legislature and judiciary.”