Club Dead: EU immigration laws turning Mediterranean into Graveyard- Malta PM
Posted on 10/13/2013 by Juan Cole here
UPI quotes him as saying:
“I don’t know how many more people need to die at sea before something gets done … rules need to change, whether they are tighter or looser is not the issue, the fact is that this thing is broken and it needs to be fixed… As things stand we are building a cemetery within our Mediterranean Sea.”On October 11, a ship carrying migrants capsized off Malta, spilling 200 persons into the water. Some 33 drowned but the Italian coastguard rescued the others.
The week before, 319 migrants died when their vessel capsized near Italy.
In the past 15 years, some 14,000 migrants have died in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe. That is nearly 1000 a year
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says that 32,000 migrants have reached southern Italy and Malta so far in 2013, and about two thirds of them have applied for asylum.
Many are from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, though Syrians have joined the risky trek in some numbers recently.
CSM quotes sources saying Europe needs to attack human trafficking networks to stop the carnage.
A solution requires a thorough understanding of the cause of the problem. The EU is more interested in diverting attention away from the situation in the Mediterranean Sea than from preventing any more deaths. Tougher laws on asylum seekers? Track down and prosecute the traffickers who benefit monetarily? Open more 'off-shore' detention centres?
These are not solutions. While ever goods and services, outsourcing and capital can flow freely across borders around the world but people remain restricted by the self-same borders this migration of 'illegals' will continue by land, sea and air whatever the cost to the vulnerable.
One world. One people. No borders. No capitalism.
There IS an alternative - and that is socialism.
JS
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