Here’s the thing...once the rubber raft is dragged out to sea and this fake rescue vessel shows up...if you go and tag each of the occupants, virtually NO ONE is Libyan. The craft may have launched from Libya, but it’s simply where the smuggler guys operate.
The Libyans aren’t stupid. They don’t the problem of these non-Libyans sitting there. People argue how many are waiting in Libya for the smuggler act to take them. Some suggest that it might be as high as half-a-million people just waiting for their chance.
And how much of a cut does the Libyan Government get from the smugglers?
Those “do good” humanitarians created a very lucrative flow of cash by cutting the business expenses of the smugglers. All the smugglers have to do is get their cargo out past the 12 mile limit line and the “do gooders” take over. Beats having to get their human cargo all the way to the European shoreline and you can bet the smugglers do not charge any less for the short trip than they did for the long one.