Italy continues to face sea flows, over 2,500 migrants expected to arrive at weekend

[rangerrebew]

Italy continues to face sea flows, over 2,500 migrants expected to arrive at weekend
Source: Xinhua   2016-06-11 01:05:27    [More]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-06/11/c_135427082.htm

by Marzia De Giuli

ROME, June 10 (Xinhua) -- More than 2,500 sea migrants are expected to be brought to southern Italy between Friday and Saturday, after being rescued during their perilous crossing of the Mediterranean, according to local reports.

Early on Friday, 592 migrants arrived in Palermo, the capital city of Sicily island region, onboard the Bourbon Argos ship operated by medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Among them there were 464 men, 119 women and 9 children, including very small ones.

"Most of these migrants came from sub-Saharan Africa, and we rescued them in three separate operations," a MSF spokesperson, Sara Creta, told Xinhua.

Creta, who was onboard the ship, said the migrants were rescued off the Libyan coasts, and all of them told aid operators that "Libya's deteriorating situation is alarming."

"All of the migrants who talked to us said they have either suffered or witnessed violence in Libya. Many said they saw people dying or being beaten. Some said they would have never decided to attempt the crossing if they had known about all of this violence," she told Xinhua.

Creta underlined there are people with very different stories among those trying to reach Europe.

"We tend to believe that the migrants are all the same, or youngsters who want to flee poverty and find a job here, but in fact there are all kinds of situations, including adults, very young couples and unaccompanied children," she noted.

"For example, yesterday I talked to a Mali high school professor born in 1964, who faced the journey to reach his family in France. They have been far from each other for some nine years," she went on saying.

"I also met a 21-year-old Nigerian holding her four-month-old son, as well as a 13-year-old child who was travelling alone, without his family," she said.

Creta highlighted that these different stories make rescuers feel very close to the people they manage to save.

"They are frightened when we first find them in trouble at sea. Many have not a life jacket or cannot even swim. Then we take them onboard, and we spend two days together before reaching land. During that time, we build a relationship with these people. We feel so sympathetic towards them," she explained to Xinhua.

Three other ships carrying hundreds of migrants are expected to reach Italian ports in the coming hours, according to ANSA news agency.

Italy is coping with continuous flows from African and Middle Eastern countries. Earlier this week, around 100 migrants protested near Rosarno, a town in southern Italy, after an officer of Carabinieri military police shot dead a Mali migrant who stabbed him at a crowded tent camp.

Local prosecutors said the officer acted in "legitimate defense," yet tension mounted among the migrants. A group of them were reported as saying to the local press that conditions in the camp were "a disgrace."

Italian police have detained numerous suspected human traffickers in recent times. On Friday, an Eritrean national extradited to Italy earlier this week admitted making the phone calls that investigators say prove he ran a wide operation to smuggle migrants from Africa to Europe, but he denied the accusations, according to ANSA.

As many as 49,757 migrants have reached Italy by sea from Jan. 1 to June 10, and the country is presently hosting 123,332 migrants in its reception centers, sources from the Italian interior ministry told Xinhua on Friday.

Italy is on track to receive around 200,000 sea migrants for 2016, according to the local press.

A report released by national statistics institute Istat on Friday said that foreigners in Italy account for 8.3 percent at the national level, or around five million people of over 60 million residents, with more than half coming from European countries.

[WAC]

The migrants and refugees demands are numerous once they are inside Italy or any other nation...they often turn to protests and violence....they want their own nations food menus, housing when they want it and protection against the warring refugees they fought within their countries who also are in the mix. They have no gratitude because they believe they are entitled...what you don't give they will take....which is the typical behavior in their cultures.



Blocking traffic to Protest Against "Overcooked Rice".......



Most are of Military age but not interested in fighting for their own countries....

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[truth_seeker]

The migrants make a calculated analysis, finding high enough chance of getting to remain at the destination, so they risk it.

If they were immediately sent back, every single one of them, every single time they arrive--they would send back home the message of "do not bother, it won't work."

In my mind, it is a humanitarian act to discourage them from risking death or injury, from the dangerous trips.

[WAC]

Smuggling operations bring thousands of 'African migrants and refugees' from Africa to Europe, often from Eritrea and Somalia sending them across the Mediterranean towards Europe....The  Majority are 'completely illiterate' even in their own languages......

The smugglers acquire between $800,000 and $1 million before costs for each boat trip of 600 people. ..with no concern whatsoever of boats sinking once they have their money.....any have been heard laughing over cell phones as boats sink.

According to the European Union’s border agency Frontex,...... more than 27,000 migrants/refugees have illegally entered Europe  departing from Libya and ending in Italy.









......'Medhanie Yehdego Mered', a kingpin people smuggler, who has been arrested accused of bringing thousands of migrants and refugees to Europe...his wife Lidya Tesfu fled to Sweden as a refugee with the couple’s young son.
His arrest is the first time a suspected kingpin had been tracked down in Kartoun Africa, where many of the smuggling networks are based.  ....there was evidence his gang tortured migrants in safe-houses in Libya.

Secret phone taps caught Mered red-handed boasting about his profits and laughing about the plight of his victims....The smuggler’s Tripoli-based network was responsible for the journeys of 10,000 migrants in just three months in 2014, as they charged up to £700,000 a boat.

[WAC]

.....Migrants wait at a fishing port in the Libyan city of Tripoli after being 'caught trying to board boats' headed for Europe...





Woman Migrants arrive in Ialy with no working skills....if Muslim they refuse to work outside their homes so will be a permanent part of the welfare system

[WAC]

TIn my mind, it is a humanitarian act to discourage them from risking death or injury, from the dangerous trips.

On the contrary they are put at sea willingly because it's well known they will be picked up by the authorities....boats generally are connected to the authorities via cellphones who locate where they are for the patrol boats. ....Any who fail to make it the first time will try again......actually many boats go down just off shore so they swim back to where they began...by then the smugglers are long gone with the money in hand.

Smuggling is NOT a humanitarian venture....it's a mob business that racks in millions on the backs of migrants AND refugees....much is  affiliated with 'human smuggling rings'........what the authorities do is basically pick up the cargo for distribution.

[TomSea]

All of these fellows look to be from Africa.

[WAC]

This is nothing more than a redistribution of 3rd world countries 'warrior are men', (for the most part), to western nations..... Thus the warring tribes in African nations have fewer of it's youth to recruit fighters from.....thereby once the numbers are depleted sufficiently then the UN forces or allies can go in and take down the primary groups fighting......otherwise it's an unending cycle of war in Africa.....

The result and end game is this frees area of conflicts where natural resources are located . Thus the International Companies, as China is doing, go in to recover those resources. With the idea doing so will put those people to work...but of course it won't as they have no skills and most lack the IQ to grasp... manual labor will be about the best they can hope for, if that. Most workers will be brought in from other nations.

This is the Globalist Plan and portion of their agenda.

[WAC]

All of these fellows look to be from Africa.

They are...read some of the posts here that tell of African smugglers Bringing them to italy from Libya and Somalia etc. Heck we've been importing Somalians for a long time. Causing communities some real problems.

[WAC]

Here's some of the Somalians that had arrived in Minnesota.

[Fishrrman]

Most will find this image offensive in the context of this thread.

But when the struggle is existential, the choices that will actually -work- become limited: