This is to do with upholding the law and controlling illegal migration. There are far more than 400 kids, not to mention their families, and please explain why (for example) a 2 year old born to Ukrainian parents who entered Israel on a tourist visa should not be deported. Deportation of families is an everyday occurrence in all Western European liberal democracies.

You also fail to mention that more than 700 children who meet specific criteria have been allowed to stay with their (extended?) families.

How can you call Israel immigration policy racist when we are paying billions of sheqels to bring non-Jewish Ethiopians into the country.

Most Israelis support the expulsion because they understand that Israel’s right to exist is predicated on it being a Jewish state. That’s why we are here and we have to observe the law – even when we don’t like the law.

No one is talking about deporting refugees or people in danger of their lives. We are talking mostly of 3 and 4 year old children who will have no problem adapting to life in the countries of their parents (exactly in the way that 12 year old Esther shown in the picture above has absorbed into Israeli society).

I sincerely hope that you publish this comment. I am not racist, but object to illegal immigration.