Illegal foreign workers fear going to the police. Apparently, for good reason
Tel Aviv, Isreal — A deportation order has been issued against Nimo Benjamin, a foreign worker from Ghana, who is now packing his bags to leave. He was arrested a few days after he complained about a Nigerian woman, also residing in Israel illegally, who was operating a smuggling network for bringing workers to Israel via Egypt and the Sinai Desert.
Benjamin told Haaretz newspaper that he complained after he was exposed to the extortion methods the women uses against on foreign workers. “I tried to mediate between her and a young Ghanaian woman, in order to settle a debt,” he said last week. “The Ghanaian worker had promised to pay the smuggler $3,000 for bringing her here, and I wanted to reach a payment arrangement for her. When I went to speak to the smuggler, she told me that since the woman had not paid her on time, the debt was now double and she threatened that if she did not receive the money, she would make sure that the woman would be deported.”
Source: GhanaWeb
