Regev says south Tel Aviv residents ‘refugees in their own country’

Likud Minister Miri Regev says the residents of south Tel Aviv are “refugees in their own country.”

Denouncing the influx of African migrants to the neighborhood, Regev says the newcomers “are not refugees.”

“They are infiltrators,” the culture minister says of the largely Sudanese and Eritrean migrants.

“The residents of south Tel Aviv are the ones who became refugees in their own country,” she says, while touring south Tel Aviv with Netanyahu and Erdan.

Regev calls on the government to circumvent this week’s Supreme Court ruling preventing the open-ended detention of migrants through Knesset legislation.

“We need [criminal] enforcement against the employers who pay the salaries of the infiltrators they employ,” she adds. “We need advocacy efforts to landlords who rent their apartments to infiltrators not to allow them to do as they please with the properties, without oversight, including dividing the apartments.”