IOM: Mediterranean migrant ships won’t stop until
Europe finds ways to let them come legally by
Ann Corcoran 1/7/17
yesterday
said, don’t stop the boats and the boat people from Africa and the Middle East,
find ways for them to migrate legally to Europe. (See former Australian Prime
Minister Tony Abbott tell the Europeans to turn back the boats, here.)
The IOM was for years a
quasi-non-profit organization (getting most of its money from governments) and
a US refugee contracting agency whose job it was, and still is, to get refugees
ready to fly to your towns and cities. You will see refugees in US airports
with blue IOM bags.
Now the agency has been folded in to
the United Nations and it is one more reason to sever our ties with the UN! Here, yesterday, they reported on the number of illegal migrants
who have arrived in Europe in 2016.
Switzerland – IOM on Friday (06/01) reported
preliminary totals for all 2016 migrant and refugee arrivals to Europe via the
Mediterranean Sea, as well as estimated fatalities.
Arrival totals were 363,348 split almost evenly between Italy and Greece, with much smaller numbers arriving in Malta, Cyprus and
Spain. Fatalities and missing migrants reached at least 5,079 although IOM
emphasizes that some incidents reported in the month of December and earlier
have not been fully accounted for.
According to IOM’s Missing Migrants
Project, incidents off Spain, Morocco and Tunisia have been reported whose
victim totals could add another 300 or more fatalities to the 2016 total. The
year 2016 already is the deadliest for migrants ever recorded by IOM in the
region.
The probable addition of several
hundred more fatalities recorded in 2016 only deepens the tragedy, said IOM
Director General William Lacy Swing, who added, Europe’s frustration with a
seemingly endless cycle of migrant rescue followed by reports of shipwrecks and
more drownings won’t end until governments throughout the region find a way to manage
migration comprehensively.
“Migrants and refugees aren’t coming
because they believe their lives will be rescued at sea once they leave Africa
or Syria or wherever conflicts drives people to seek safety,” Ambassador Swing
said. “They’re leaving because they believe their lives will be doomed if they
stay. The
answer lies in finding creative means to permit safe, legal and secure
migration, be that through work visas, family reunification or temporary
protected status.
[UNHCR is searching for “alternative pathways” to move the third world
to the first since most of these migrants are not legitimate refugees.—ed]
Instead of doubling down on tactics that don’t work, let’s use this New Year to
try something that’s actually new.”
Italy and Greece suffer the most. Read
the whole article, these numbers are way down for Greece, but up for Italy. See our complete ‘Invasion of
Europe’ archive by clicking here.
http://www.iom.int/news/mediterranean-migrant-arrivals-top-363348-2016-deaths-sea-5079
Editor: I hope to get a lot of things posted today, yesterday
was a wipe-out due to computer problems!
Comments
Foreign governments who are running this scam need to be
stopped. I bet they all belong to the
UN. Closure of borders and deportation
of migrants is the next order of business for the US and Europe. These boats
need to be turned around.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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