UN agency joins petition against Israeli infiltration law

 　　JERUSALEM, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations High Commissioner¹ for Refugees (UNHCR) joined a petition filed by human rights organizations to the Supreme² Court against the Israeli law of infiltration³ and asked to revoke⁴ it, local media reported Tuesday.

　　The UNHCR's unprecedented⁵ move is an attempt to overturn a law which it claims "wrongly stigmatizes⁶ and penalizes⁷ those seeking refuge."

　　"UNHCR has direct interest in the outcome of this petition, as it raises a number of legal issues relating to entry, detention⁸ and removal of refugees and asylum⁹ seekers," it wrote, deeming that the law violates human rights and does not confirm with international human rights' protocols¹⁰.

　　In January 2012, the Knesset (parliament) passed several amendments¹¹ as the "security measure" regarding the infiltration law. Among others, the law permits detaining all those in Israel who can not be deported¹³ to their countries of origin as it is too dangerous there.

　　The law enables to lock up asylum seekers for up to three years, after which it will reconsider their status, and it does not differentiate¹⁴ between asylum seekers, refugees and illegal migrants.

　　"The law does not differentiate between migrant workers and refugees or asylum seekers. They're all included in an infiltrator¹⁵ category. This law is stigmatizing¹⁶ and doesn't take into account special position of refugees and asylum-seekers under international law, or their vulnerability," the UNHCR wrote.

　　"Beyond an initial security screening, the automatic detention of refugees classified as infiltrators on the sole reason of having entered Israel irregularly does not meet international standards," the UNHCR wrote.

　　The law also permits the state to detain children. In response, the UNHCR wrote in its statement to the court that "children who are seeking asylum should in principal not be detained."

　　The amendments to the law were made in the past year as outgoing interior minister Eli Yishai declared his plan to repatriate¹⁷ nearly 60,000 African migrants living in Israel, including repatriation¹⁸ of several thousand migrants and the detention of others deemed unlawful by the Attorney General, who ordered last week not to deport¹² any Eritrean migrants until further notice.

　　Thousands of Sudanese and Eritrean illegal migrants have already been arrested.

　　Yishai claimed that the migrants possess a "danger" to the state of Israel and its Jewish characteristics. The government completed a 240-km fence along the Egyptian-Israeli border to prevent migrants from infiltrating¹⁹ into the country.

1 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

2 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

3 infiltration   

n.渗透；下渗；渗滤；入渗

参考例句：

• The police tried to prevent infiltration by drug traffickers. 警方尽力阻止毒品走私分子的潜入。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• A loss in volume will occur if infiltration takes place. 如果发生了渗润作用，水量就会减少。 来自辞典例句

4 revoke   

v.废除，取消，撤回

参考例句：

• The university may revoke my diploma.大学可能吊销我的毕业证书。
• The government revoked her husband's license to operate migrant labor crews.政府撤销了她丈夫管理外来打工人群的许可证。

5 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

6 stigmatizes   

v.使受耻辱，指责，污辱( stigmatize的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

7 penalizes   

对…予以惩罚( penalize的第三人称单数 )； 使处于不利地位

参考例句：

• The new law penalizes the poorest members of society. 新法规对社会中最贫困者不利。

8 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

9 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

10 protocols   

n.礼仪( protocol的名词复数 )；（外交条约的）草案；（数据传递的）协议；科学实验报告（或计划）

参考例句：

• There are also protocols on the testing of nuclear weapons. 也有关于核武器试验的协议。 来自辞典例句
• Hardware components and software design of network transport protocols are separately introduced. 介绍系统硬件组成及网络传输协议的软件设计。 来自互联网

11 amendments   

（法律、文件的）改动( amendment的名词复数 )； 修正案； 修改； （美国宪法的）修正案

参考例句：

• The committee does not adequately consult others when drafting amendments. 委员会在起草修正案时没有充分征求他人的意见。
• Please propose amendments and addenda to the first draft of the document. 请对这个文件的初稿提出修改和补充意见。

12 deport   

vt.驱逐出境

参考例句：

• We deport aliens who slip across our borders.我们把偷渡入境的外国人驱逐出境。
• More than 240 England football fans are being deported from Italy following riots last night.昨晚的骚乱发生后有240多名英格兰球迷被驱逐出意大利。

13 deported   

v.将…驱逐出境( deport的过去式和过去分词 )；举止

参考例句：

• They stripped me of my citizenship and deported me. 他们剥夺我的公民资格，将我驱逐出境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The convicts were deported to a deserted island. 罪犯们被流放到一个荒岛。 来自《简明英汉词典》

14 differentiate   

vi.(between)区分；vt.区别；使不同

参考例句：

• You can differentiate between the houses by the shape of their chimneys.你可以凭借烟囱形状的不同来区分这两幢房子。
• He never learned to differentiate between good and evil.他从未学会分辨善恶。

15 infiltrator   

n.渗透者，渗入者

参考例句：

• Infiltrator(#): Careful team, I hear something. 妙手：且慢！似乎有东西正在靠近。 来自互联网
• Radio: The Infiltrator (#) can open locked doors like this one for the squad. 讯息：妙手的解锁技能一流。 来自互联网

16 stigmatizing   

v.使受耻辱，指责，污辱( stigmatize的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Laing regards the concept of mental illness as both unscientific and stigmatizing. 菜恩认为精神病的概念是不科学的和诬蔑性的。 来自辞典例句
• The existing social benefits are considered to be stigmatizing and repressive. 现存的社会福利被指责为是无价值的、残暴的。 来自互联网

17 repatriate   

v.遣返；返回；n.被遣返回国者

参考例句：

• The government safely repatriates victims.政府安全遣返了受害者。
• In this part,you need to formulate in detail repatriate the plan.在这一部分，你需要制定详细的归国计划。

18 repatriation   

n.遣送回国，归国

参考例句：

• The Volrep programme is the preferred means of repatriation. 政府认为自愿遣返计划的遣返方法较为可取。 来自互联网
• Arrange the cargo claiming and maritime affairs,crews repatriation,medical treatment,traveling so on. （六）洽办货物理赔，船舶海事处理，办理船员遣返，就医，旅游等。 来自互联网

19 infiltrating   

v.（使）渗透，（指思想）渗入人的心中( infiltrate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Be vigilant against the danger of enemy agents infiltrating the government and boring from within. 要警惕敌特渗入政府内部进行暗中破坏。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The metastatic melanoma is seen here to be infiltrating into the myocardium. 图示转移性黑色素瘤浸润到心肌。 来自互联网