Posted on 04/16/2007 2:58:18 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Somali community leaders in Sana'a said on Saturday that 130 African migrants died at sea when their boat capsized off the Yemeni coast after coast guards opened fire on them.
Three boats carrying 460 African migrants, Somalis and Ethiopians, left the Somali port of Bossaso on 9 April and arrived in Yemeni regional waters late on 12 April.
"As the smuggling boats entered the Yemeni waters, coast guards began firing on them, causing one boat to capsize," Sadat Mohammed, head of refugee affairs in the Somali community in Sana'a, told IRIN.
"The boat was carrying African migrants, most of whom were women from Ethiopia. The shooting forced the terrified passengers to move and they couldn't maintain their balance. Their boat capsized as a result," Mohammed added.
The Somali leader said the other two boats fled and escaped being fired on.
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Article does not specify exactly why anyone would want to illegally emigrate to Yemen in the first place. Even the Saudis built a border wall to keep those guys out.
Where’s the MSM outrage? Or does it only matter here when Border Patrol “violates” someone’s made-up non-citizen “rights”?
A surefire method of dealing with illegal immigration.
Liberals created this situation. Somalis and Ethiopians used to be capable of feeding themselves until the UN began to feed their people with donated grain. The Somalis and Ethiopians then discovered life was easier closer to the refugee camps and left their farms by the thousands. Famine generated a welfare culture which destroyed the economy. To fix the situation the Somalis and Ethiopians need to be encouraged to return to their farms and to rebuild their agrarian economy. The UN needs to get out of the welfare business.
Maybe we should subcontract with Yemen to guard the Mexican border.
No, wait, I didn’t say that. . . .
The implication then is that Somalia is such a hellhole that even Yemen looks good.
US take note.
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