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Payments to smugglers have exceeded $16 billion in the last 15 years…
Refugees pose an overwhelming humanitarian crisis for Europe. As hundreds of thousands seek safety, they are paying immense sums of money to smugglers. Europe’s crisis is not only an urgent humanitarian disaster, but it has also increased the incredibly lucrative industry of human trafficking.
A Libyan coast guard vessel donated by Italy and funded by the EU fired “hundreds of bullets” at a rescue ship in international waters. The European Commission has called the incident “a worrying development.” That said, it continues to support Libyan authorities under the EU’s migration cooperation deal. Armed violence against humanitarian workers The Ocean Viking, operated by SOS Mediterranee, had just rescued a group of migrants when a
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