Sentences with phrase «in migrant boats»

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.

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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.

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.

Teams of frogmen in smaller boats approach and assess the migrant vessel.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Search for «migrant boats» on Google and read down the list of tragedies, the lives lost in a desperate scramble for a better life.

But others suspect the migrants hopped down the Pacific coast in boats long before that happened.

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.

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 ItalIn 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 Italin recent months after attempting to make the treacherous journey from Libya to Lampedusa in Italin 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.

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.