Due to a steep drop in the number of African migrants illegally crossing the border from Egypt in recent months, there is now adequate space for them in existing detention facilities, without building a planned new tent city for them in the Negev.
Drop in migrant numbers means tent city no longer needed, document says
In June and July of 2011, 3,000 migrants entered Israel illegally,that number dropped to about 1,300 for the same two months of this year.
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