People without borders – What would you do?

[tulc]

MAGA doesn't stand for "Make The World Great Again".

...I thought it stood for "My Attorney Got Arrested"?
tulc(is just sayn')

 

[Ana the Ist]

So I was watching Euronews earlier this evening. A piece came up on this subject with footage from Agadaz, Niger which is a major people smuggling hub for getting people across the Sahara to the Mediterranean coast. These things stuck with me:-
First, a local smuggler who was saying how now times were hard and the work more dangerous. This was because of a combination of the EU and certain EU countries tightening up controls and security and because of bandits and islamic terrorists. There were still 'customers' but 'not like it was'. He said he would still carry on, he had a family, it was his business, there was nothing else.
Secondly, it seems that now more people are dying/disappearing on the Sahara crossing than on the sea crossing.
Thirdly, the estimate is that at the moment about 3000+ people are 'stranded' in Libya unable to cross north or return south.
Lastly, in Agadaz, a young man from Guinea sat on the floor of a derelict house with about 7/8 other subsaharan africans. They were waiting to start the Saharan crossing. He said, It doesn't matter. We know we may not make it. They can do whatever they want (meaning I suppose governments, african and european), we will still try, there is nothing else.
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That's tough.

 

[Nithavela]