Surge in illegal migration after Libya threat to 'flood' EU

The Telegraph ^ | 5/30/2014 | Keith Perry

[markomalley]

The number of illegal migrants reaching Europe has risen eight-fold in the last year and is higher than during the Arab Spring, new figures from the European Union's border agency show.

The majority of the migrants are crossing from Libya and comes after the country's interim interior minister warned last month that his government would help migrants leave for Europe if the EU didn't give his country financial aid to cope with the influx.

From January to April this year, 42,000 migrants were recorded by Frontex, the European Union's border agency, with 25,650 of these crossing from Libya.

Large numbers of Syrian and Eritrean refugees are waiting in Libya to be illegally smuggled to the European Unions, the deputy head of the Warsaw-based border agency warned on Wednesday.

At least a third of the latest arrivals are Syrians, fleeing that country's civil war. But other significant numbers are coming from Afghanistan and Eritrea.

[markomalley]

They call 42,000 in four months a "flood"? ROTFLMAO!

[cripplecreek]

Well the wading is a little tougher.

[LeoWindhorse]

all these tubs should be sunk

stand off 50 yds and let them have it with .50’s

a couple of months of this sort of response will end all efforts to ‘immigrate’ in this way . The tide must be stemmed , at any cost . There are millions more where they came from . No great loss .

[octex]

all these tubs should be sunk
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Beat me to it. I really don’t understand why the US and other so-called Western countries continue to permit the invasion of their countries by people who hate them and want to kill them.