Cheaper in the long run.
Posted on 06/25/2018 9:57:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The new Italian government has closed its ports to charity ships operating in the Mediterranean, saying the EU must share the burden of disembarking the hundreds of migrants who are plucked from waters each month, mostly off the Libyan coast.
Italy, which lies close to Libya, has taken in 650,000 boat migrants since 2014.
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Italy’s anti-immigration stancecriticized by human rights groups who say its risks lives at sea, has sharpened divisions in the EU, which took in more than a million refugees and migrants in 2015 alone. ...
Interceptions of migrant boats by Libya’s coastguard have surged over the past week, with almost 1,000 African asylum-seekers picked up in one day on Sunday.
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Salvini said Italy would give 20 patrol boats to the Libyan coastguard. “We’ll do all we can to make sure it’s the Libyan authorities that patrol Libyan waters,” he said, accusing some private rescue organizations of helping human traffickers.
He also played down reports of inhuman conditions in Libyan detention centers. He did not rule out abuses at informal camps, but said the U.N. refugee agency had assured him that rules were respected at the official centers.
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Libya has said it won’t operate these type centers. Course, if they were offered three or four billion Euro a year (like Erdogan’s deal), they might change their mind. But no one wants a bunch of transit folks standing around. And beyond Germany....no one in the EU is going to sign up for this type of deal.
Cheaper in the long run.
Shutting the doors and deporting folks without consideration for their excuses or circumstances would work too.
Does this mean Italy is pulling its collective head out?
It seems to me that if Italy refuses to disembark migrants from “charity ships” the ships will soon fill up with migrants and the crisis will essentially be over. Once all of the expensive ships are full and standing by, they aren’t going to be picking up anyone else.
Here’s another proposal: Instead of trying to grab what other people have, everyone stay home and apply your energies to making the best possible country for yourselves to live in right THERE.
I’d like to know what the U.N.’s involvement in this is.
Here's a thought, keep yer sorry asses on dry land.
Sounds like Libya has issues. Last I saw there's a whole continent just South of'em. Not sure why it's automatically s'posed to be Italy's problem to deal with.
I know it's not very Christian of me, but fugg'em.
They better figure it out....or they are going to lose their country.
They’re facilitators of the whole mess, just as 0bummer is.
+1.
Mark
They’ll sign up. Or the EU will start letting banks go under.
Don’t let the ships dock.
Send them back to THEIR HOME PORTS.
They’ll stop soon enough.
Yes. But the centers should not be in Libya. They should be in some stable North African state that has the ability to enforce local laws and controls on them. That will require migrants to wait in Libya, or their homw country, until they can get a visa to the country willing to host the migrant processing center. That country alone, to keep control of the situation, will place limits on the numbers of migrant applicants at any time.
Why does the migrant crisis exist and what caused it? What caused it was the stupid Schengen Agreement the EU nations signed. What Schengen did was make it so all anyone in the world needed to be able to travel anywhere in the EU was to get their feet somewhere on EU soil. That did it. No longer did migrants need visa’s from indpendent EU countries, just treat the ports on the Mediterranean the way folks treat the U.S. Southern border - oveerwhelm it; and once “landed” just go where you want.
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