According to the UNHCR, some 98,000 refugees crossed the Mediterranean in the first 6 months of 2017, most of them from Libya. 69,000 ended up in Italy, 8,300 in Greece and 3,300 in Spain. 2,900 lives were lost in the process.linky
Posted on 06/17/2018 4:09:43 PM PDT by RightGeek
Italy’s interior minister has sparked a new migration crisis in the Mediterranean by barring two rescue boats from bringing refugees to shore, a week .
“Two other ships with the flag of Netherlands, Lifeline and Seefuchs, have arrived off the coast of Libya, waiting for their load of human beings abandoned by the smugglers,” Matteo Salvini, the leader of the anti-immigrant party the League, wrote on his Facebook page. “These gentlemen know that Italy no longer wants to be complicit in the business of illegal immigration, and therefore will have to look for other ports [not Italian] where to go.”
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If the NGO boats are unable to land the people they rescue and cease to operate, Operation Sophia, an EU anti-smuggler mission patrolling the Mediterranean, may take up some of the slack. NGOs, however, say its warships operate too far out to sea, given that people traffickers favour towing rubber boats full of migrants to the edge of Libya’s 12-mile territorial waters before setting them adrift.
Italy’s port closures come despite an 85% fall in migrant crossings since last year. The decrease is in part the result of the EU and Italy training and funding Libya’s coastguard to intercept vessels.
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Why doesn’t Gaza take them in?
Arab Spring-more like Radical Islamic Spring.
NAZIs
“Von” indicates a person’s family comes from the nobility. There’s nothing noble about traitor Merkel.
The best way to handle this is to not let them into your country. If we did this at our borders now, we would not hear all this BS about poor kids and parents being separated.
Most of these people do not need asylum, they are purposely sent here to rip us off and make Americans give them free stuff.
Yep, until Salvini the Western European governments have been laying out the welcome mat, encouraging more and more migrants to come. Just like what happened with Germany, it’s the Euros’ policies that have caused this flood into their countries.
Agreed. Like I’ve said before: they will get the hint after the second torpedo sank the second ship.
How about BACK to once they came? Make Italy Great Again, no illegal alien invasion or landings.
“...Italy’s closure of its ports to the migrant rescue ship Aquarius, which was carrying 620 people, triggered warnings from aid agencies of a deadly summer at sea for people trying to cross the Mediterranean....”
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Lesson to be learned by the “migrants”: Don’t be an illegal trying to cross the Mediterranean.
Lesson to be learned by the NGO “smugglers”: It’s expensive to be stuck with illegal, smelly cargo you can’t unload.
Lesson to be learned by the Italians: It feels good to stand up for yourselves.
Tourism down a bit in Rome and Venice perhaps?
I would be more compassionate if I didn’t believe this is a long term strategy by the islamists to infiltrate and occupy western cultures to the point where they outnumber the native population.
According to the UNHCR, some 98,000 refugees crossed the Mediterranean in the first 6 months of 2017, most of them from Libya. 69,000 ended up in Italy, 8,300 in Greece and 3,300 in Spain. 2,900 lives were lost in the process.linky
How about this.
Führer Merkel
The guardian is a communist rag. It wants Italy destroyed. Salvini is Italian. He wants Italy great again.
Point out the laws they’ve broken. Seize the ships
Its not about humanitarianism.
Its about nation states enabling human traffickers or smugglers by picking up the people they ship out to sea from the North African coast.
Italy is finally saying, enough.
Italy has a leader for a change.
Good for Italy!
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