Posted on 05/04/2015 6:05:03 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Numbers risking the journey in search of a better life have continued to rise two weeks after as many as 900 people drowned in the worst Mediterranean shipwreck in living memory.
Crew from the Italian naval vessel Bettica found the woman in labor on a boat overnight -- one of 34 vessels intercepted over the weekend. A photo posted online showed her new daughter sleeping in a makeshift cradle decorated with a pink bow.
"Both mother and daughter are in good health," the navy said in a statement.
Growing lawlessness and anarchy in Libya -- the last point on one of the main transit routes to Europe -- is giving free hand to people smugglers who make an average of 80,000 euros ($90,000) from each boatload, according to an ongoing investigation by an Italian court.
Mild spring weather and calm summer seas are expected to push total arrivals in Italy for 2015 to 200,000, an increase of 30,000 on last year, according to an Interior Ministry projection.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Gotta love that Reuters spin. Illegal aliens are now "those risking their lives in search of a better life." No. Most of them are "those who want to transplant the savage, Dark Age Hell that is Islamism into the West."
Drop them off in Libya.
Going right back to that bungle in Benghazi, which effectively ended any diplomatic relations with whatever government there is in Libya, there had been only anarchy prevailing ever since Kaddaffi had been removed from power (and incidentally, died), part of some misguided “Arab Spring” movement to put the Muslim Brotherhood in power all over the Middle East.
The Muslims now flooding into southern Europe are concealing a vast army of really militant Islamic jihadists, a fifth column invading the rest of the Mediterranean basin.
yes for sure, these people at moving to Europe to colonize, they carry the Muslin “flag”....I keep posting: the tribe with most babies; wins... I give Europe about 15 years....
One of the leading Muslim Sharia advocates in Europe says the only way the Infidel can stop a Muslim takeover is for the Infidels to have 4 wives and lots of babies.
Then he adds "That is not likely to happen." - Tom
And the invaders will recreate the feces holes they came from in Europe.
Getting really tired of the “situation in Libya forces them” spin.
They didn’t have to go to Libya in the first place!
And if they don’t like it there, they can just go back home!
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