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| The original article in the Independent is here. Things haven't improved |
The Aquarius is again in the news. The ship with its cargo of African immigrants, is being denied to land not just in Italy but also in Malta and Spain.
This is a ship run by a couple of NGOs. They hang out just off the coast of Libya.
Note that: "just off the coast of Libya". That means right near Libya.
That's where these would-be immigrants are setting off from. And we learn that the rubber boats they head off in are unseaworthy to begin with. And the reason they do head off despite their unseaworthiness is that Aquarius is hove-to just off the coast. And how do the traffickers know this? Because they are in contact by VHF radio with Aquarius.
There, right there you have the definition of cooperation in human trafficking.
No one in Europe has given Aquarius permission to do this. Indeed poll after poll shows that 75-80% of Europeans want to control the unrestricted and unchecked immigration to their shores. They cannot accept anyone and everyone in the world who wants to land on their shores.
A rep on Aquarius said that Italy had an obligation to take people rescued at sea. No they don't. The obligation is on the closest port to do so. That would be Libya or Turkey.
Yet to the Left to voice such concerns and objections is to be xenophobic and racist.
But Aquarius is involved in human trafficking!
No one in Europe has given Aquarius permission to do this. Indeed poll after poll shows that 75-80% of Europeans want to control the unrestricted and unchecked immigration to their shores. They cannot accept anyone and everyone in the world who wants to land on their shores.
A rep on Aquarius said that Italy had an obligation to take people rescued at sea. No they don't. The obligation is on the closest port to do so. That would be Libya or Turkey.
Yet to the Left to voice such concerns and objections is to be xenophobic and racist.
But Aquarius is involved in human trafficking!
