Refugee rights groups say Eli Yishai's order against the north Sudanese and Darfuri community breaches the UN Refugee Convention, Israeli daily Haaretz said.
Because Sudan is classified by Israel as an enemy state, deportation of asylum seekers there is illegal, the report noted.
Yishai also said he will seek legal approval to jail and deport asylum-seekers from Eritrea, it added.
In June, his ministry deported Israel's South Sudanese and Ivorian communities. Those who did not leave voluntarily were detained by immigration police, after Israel authorized the detention of migrants without trial for up to three years in early 2012.
People from war-ravaged Eritrea and Sudan make up the majority of African migrants in Israel, some 50,000 people.
Immigration to Israel -- mostly of Africans through its relatively porous border with Egypt -- is a controversial issue in a country which seeks to maintain a Jewish majority.
Some Israelis warn of a gathering demographic and economic crisis while others say a country born after the Holocaust has a special responsibility to offer foreigners sanctuary.
Earlier this year, African migrants were subject to a surge in street violence, particularly in south Tel Aviv where many from Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan live.
Source: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=515690
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