Over 2,500 migrants lost to Mediterranean in 2023: UN (www.dw.com)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Over 2,500 people have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean so far in 2023 while trying to cross into Europe, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday in New York.

Migrants and refugees "risk death and gross human rights violations at every step," Ruven Menikdiwela, director of the UNHCR New York office, told the Security Council.

This comes on the same day when European Union interior ministers met in Brussels to discuss how to handle people migrating to Europe by sea amid growing concern from member states Italy and Germany.

Member states and the European Parliament have been negotiating for years on far-reaching reforms to the bloc's common asylum system but without results.

Some 186,000 people have already arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean Sea between January and September 24 of this year, according to the UNHCR.

Menikdiwela reminded the Security Council that the land journey from sub-Saharan African countries, where many migrants originate, to the departure points on the coast of Libya and Tunisia "remains one of the world's most dangerous."

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[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

I am of two minds. No lives should be lost needlessly but these people chose to brave the seas as illegal economic migrants. This is the gamble they chose to take.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Calling the victims economic gamblers and saying that you partly think those deaths are justified would be really popular on Truth Social.

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