Pressure has grown on governments to act after an overcrowded
migrant boat sank in the Mediterranean last month, leaving more than 750 dead in a case that sparked international outrage.
Previously, authorities depended on passing commercial or military vessels to spot refugee or
migrant boats.
So UK ministers are partly but directly responsible for
migrant boat deaths and Cameron, as prime minister, shares that responsibility.
On the other hand, it seems likely that the prospect of being rescued in this way provides an incentive to migrants to embark on journeys that are visibly unsafe, and that where states have broken the link between rescue and access to their territory — as the Australian government has done by adopting a policy whereby
migrant boats are either towed back to their point of embarkation, or else their occupants are assessed in offshore detention centres, with those qualifying for refugee status placed in third countries — the stream of boats rapidly dries up, and with it the loss of life.
The UKIP leader Nigel Farage says Islamist extremists could cross the Mediterranean and gain access to the UK as a result of EU policies to address
the migrant boat crisis.
Even before the most recent Mediterranean
migrant boat tragedies, the immigration debate has been on voters» minds, ranking third (after the NHS and the UK economy) in a list of the most important election issues according to a recent BBC poll.
In his traditional Christmas message, Pope Francis on Sunday urged Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus by thinking about the plight of today's children, bemoaning how some must escape bombs or flee in
migrant boats and how others are prevented from being born at all.
Theresa May has hardened Britain's refusal to accept the mandatory European Union refugee quota system being put forward in Brussels this week in response to the Mediterranean
migrant boat crisis.
Search for «
migrant boats» on Google and read down the list of tragedies, the lives lost in a desperate scramble for a better life.
A day later
another migrant boat sank off Lampedusa, Italy — and dozens are feared dead.
The migrant boat was intercepted by the NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station's rescue ship, and all the people onboard were evacuated.
The issues at hand are so - called «pullback» practices in which the Libyan coastguard — funded, trained, and equipped by the Italian authorities under an agreement signed in February 2017 — prevents
migrant boats from heading to Europe's safe shores.
Not exact matches
Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and economic
migrants have reached Italy in the last few years, after rescue at sea when smugglers»
boats founder in the Mediterranean.
The
boats set sail from Libya, where a main base of the traffickers is located, and
migrants wait in sordid conditions, often for months, for the opportunity to be crowded into the
boats after paying thousands of dollars.
More than 5,000
migrants, many escaping civil war in Syria, have died over the past 18 months while trying to cross from North Africa, often on flimsy rubber dinghies or crowded fishing
boats.
On the other side, a
boat cemetery is filled with junked vessels that brought refugees and
migrants to the island over the past few years.
Teams of frogmen in smaller
boats approach and assess the
migrant vessel.
A
migrant from Senegal who travelled to Europe by
boat has won a stake of some $ 400,000 (# 294,000; $ 436,000) in Spain's Christmas...
The days he'd spent trapped in a
migrant jail in Libya, the hours rocking on a packed
boat to Sicily, and the month hopping from truck to truck in Calais - all in the hope of reaching England - appeared to have come to nothing.
An ORB poll for the Telegraph today narrows the Remain lead to 5 points from 13 a week ago after Albanian
migrants were rescued from a
boat off the Kent coast.
An old fishing
boat, only 20 meters long but packed with as many as 950 would - be
migrants from Libya, sank off the coast of Italy on April 18, 2015.
As well as detecting
boats carrying
migrants, the system could issue wireless alerts warning of the possible presence of pirates or drug smugglers.
But others suspect the
migrants hopped down the Pacific coast in
boats long before that happened.
13 Jan 2018, 8:07 pm Gallery: Photo Dispatch:
Migrants risking life and limb to cross Alps from Italy to France Italian tourism official website: vacations, art and culture, history, events, nature, lakes, mountains, golf, sci,
boating, thermal spas, sports and adventure
Migrants as their
boat is towed away by a Thai navy vessel, in waters near Koh Lipe island, on Saturday.
Is it ethical that smugglers exploit millions of
migrants and to force them to pay for being put in an overloaded
boat that most likely will sink in the waters of the sea?
In the last two years, more than a million
migrants crossed the Mediterranean by
boat, many thousands drowning before reaching shore.
As was the case in The Jaguar's Children, the
migrants had been abandoned by the smugglers and two had taken charge of the
boat and placed an emergency call.
Australia Before being voted into office, Tony Abbott, the prime minister of Australia had pledged to «stop the
boats,» a reference to the many
boats full of
migrant refugees seeking asylum in the country.
Xaviera Simmons shows an appropriated photograph of
migrants on a
boat.
But Himid's women are alone on a rough, open sea that is even more resonant today as the numbers mount of would - be
migrants from Africa who are drowned off Libya, Tenerife and Sicily in open
boats just like this.
Volunteers help Afghan and Syrian
migrants off a rubber
boat on a rocky beach in northern Lesbos, Greece.
I'm of the opinion that it's actually a perfect time for artists to use the world stage of the most respected and long - standing international art exhibition, to address some urgent issues of world politics: In particular migration which is the subject of Vik Muniz's «Lampedusa» (Pace Gallery), a fragile paper
boat floats around the Venetian canals, printed with headlines about
migrants who died at sea in recent months after attempting to make the treacherous journey from Libya to Lampedusa in Italy.
Migrants may be apprehended by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) if, in an enforcement officer's view, the person is: (1) a flight risk, (2) a danger to the public or themselves, (3) undocumented (they do not have acceptable identification papers or their papers conflict with information the CBSA has on file), or (4) are part of an irregular arrival, such as arrival en masse on a
boat.