[BBell]

The comments came after 450 migrants were picked up from a wooden fishing boat on Saturday, and brought to Sicily to disembark onto European territory. France, Malta, Germany, Spain, and Portugal have all agreed to take a small proportion fo the migrants each, while Libya, the Czech Republic, and now Austria have refused.

Libya?? Is that a typo?

[caww]

Libya won’t take them back once they leave.

[pepsionice]

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.

[BobL]

Libya has a ‘business’ to protect, which is loading up these refugees, I mean migrants, I mean invaders, and pushing them out to sea. The problem with taking them back is what to do with them. They’re not Libyans, in fact, they’re Third World types, even to Libyans (Kadaffi had moved the country pretty far forward before Hillary decided to take him out), so Libya doesn’t want them - so then what, they get sent back to Central Africa? Destroys the reputation of the smugglers should that happen...much better to force Europe to have to deal with them.