Last year the European Governments scaled down their efforts to rescue migrants on boats in the Mediterranean Sea. At the moment NGO's are filling the void. This so called humanitarian organisations "rescue" migrants close to the Libyan coast and sail them to Italy. It's starting to get really ridiculous as this NGO's seems to be working together with the human traffickers, they simple drop the migrants at NGO's ships, which are waiting in the international waters, and sometimes even in the Libyan territorial waters. The migrants are most of the times economic refugees who try to find a better life in the EU.
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