Tuesday 13 June 2017

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS - June 2017

Marginalized from Europe, which has no intention of sharing the flows of illegal immigrants that we welcome in bulk from Libya, Italy is now also ridiculed daily by the pseudo Libyan government of Fayez al-Sarraj whose feeble Coast Guard with its poor and small means is teaching a lesson to the Italian military fleets and the EU in terms of the contrast to the traffickers.
As last Thursday on Saturday the Libyan Coast Guard took back 438 illegal migrants stranded at sea by patrol boats as they left Libya on two boats and two barges. He reported the spokesman for the Libyan navy, Admiral Ayob Amr Ghasem. The project, at 7 on Saturday morning, was carried eight miles off the coast of Mellitah, the town west of Tripoli where the headquarters of the ENI Greenstream pipeline terminal.
Illegal migrants are representative of the sample of nationalities from raggiugono time Italy illegally from West Africa and Bangladesh, almost all economic migrants who do not fleeing war or persecution and that they would not be entitled to any asylum under international law .
The Ghasem Admiral stated that the four vessels were escorted by a "protecting group" of traffickers on two Viper speedboats that have been attacked by Libyan patrol boats with the destruction of one, the other's escape and the arrest of five criminals Libyans armed with Kalashnikovs.

"In the presence of the High Commissioner for Refugees" Ghasem ANSA reported yet, "the migrants were handed over to the reception center of al-Nasr while during the operation" the presence of international NGOs ships was detected " that seemed to be waiting barges and rafts loaded with illegal immigrants to pick them up and take them to Italy.
In recent weeks the Libyan Coast Guard, in line with agreements with Italy, has conducted various block operations of migrants engaging in at least two occasions clashes in focus with the traffickers accompanying the migrant boats towards the open sea where they were detected the rescue ships of various NGOs.
But the Italian government that does not only cover the remaining credibility of ridicule and national dignity?
We train the crews of the Libyan Coast Guard patrol boats that give old and badly armed but then leave them alone to face the traffickers?
We deploy a dozen warships in the Strait of Sicily and as many European ships, with aircraft, helicopters, drones and satellites at a cost of hundreds of millions of euro per year, and there you must report the Libyans that the NGO ships have been meeting with traffickers to embark illegal immigrants?

Yes, because beyond the politically correct language that requires the use of terms "inclusive" (and reminiscent of "newspeak" Orwellian regime of 1984) it was indeed illegal as evidenced by the fact that more than a thousand captured smugglers October 2013 today by military fleets and then handed over to the Italian authorities (for the most part immediately released except those accused of causing tragic shipwrecks) are all charged with "illegal immigration." This means that their customers are defined as "illegal immigrants" at least until they land in Italy and possibly seeking asylum.
Better start to speak out on an issue as serious enough to destabilize the EU and sow chaos in Italy.
Is it possible that in Rome no one knows anything of traffickers-NGO relationships reported by the Libyans? Or you stop your eyes and ears not to endanger the business lobbies of the aid and those of reception: only the latter will share this year about 5 billion Euros, slightly less than the 6 billion that according to raking Europol estimates annually in Libya traffickers.
The prime minister Paolo Gentiloni and Interior Minister Marco Minniti and escape from the ambiguity inherent in the affirmation "manage the flows" to tell us clearly if you really have the will to stop illegal immigration is unacceptable for its social and political costs and related to security or if they do not have the will or the ability because of lobbying which they are subjected.

The difference is significant not only to understand if Italy still has a residue of national sovereignty but also to realize if the current political class is able to solve problems or limited only to magnify them to allow national or foreign lobbies profit from it. Exceptionally, by, especially in elections.
If we still have a sovereignty we expect the government to prevent access to national ports to all foreign ships, civilian and military, which tranship illegal migrants?
An action motivated by ambiguity and reticence dimolte NGOs, which, however, have also declined in part to provide clarification on their work and their lenders before a parliamentary committee, but also justified under international law.
Of safe havens where disembark the "castaways" collected at sea, as established by the Hamburg Convention, there are several in Malta, in Tunisia and in the same Tripoli Libya, far closer than the Italians, while the naval vessels of the European fleet This would force to land in their countries flag migrants, as advocated (but should order it) Minniti days ago.
Of course such an initiative would remove the already scarce solidarity that Europe has granted us the "sweetener" fleet of Frontex and Operation Sophia to which no Member State would participate with their ships and were to take charge of the rescue illegal migrants at sea.
Not bad because European fleets (such as Italian ones) have so far done nothing to combat the traffickers while on the concrete floor to stop the migratory flows from Libya would be possible in a few days, especially now that the Libyan Coast Guard seems to really fight the traffickers.

Just alongside their patrol with our powerful fleets to stop the boats and rafts just set sail, returning migrants in Libyan territory in equipped areas where the UN, after much talk, could finally establish refugee camps from which repatriate illegal migrants.
Let there by mistake: we are not making any a humanitarian mission, we do not welcome people persecuted or threatened with genocide (as Yazidis and Chaldean Christians massacred by ISIS) or people fleeing despotic regimes (such as the thousand Vietnamese boat people that three Italian military ships gathered in the Pacific in 1979). We welcome just anyone with money to pay handsomely traffickers in collusion with jihadi terrorism for over 95% of men are asking not even prove his real identity.
assisted and coordinated Rejections would cease died at sea (and in the Libyan desert) but also flows because no one would pay and risk his life knowing that he can not reach the Italian coast and Europe.

Roma could also ask the Tunis Cooperation (cost us less than what we spend on the reception) which has already collected UN camps for migrants at sea and in 2011 allowed the return with an international airlift of one million workers foreigners, Asians and Africans who fled from Libya during the war against Muammar Gheddafi.
As for traffickers intelligence of the Italian naval missions (Safe Sea) and European (Operation Sophia), led by Italian admirals, they have collected all the information needed to detect and neutralize criminal networks that manage the flow, independently and in cooperation with any Libyan authorities.
It would be enough little, if there was the will, even to prevent traffickers from obtaining supplies of rubber boats, bought in China and directed at Libyan ports via Turkey and Malta. A "legitimate trade" that military fleets are not allowed to fight but that probably could be compromised by exercising the right and repeated pressure on the Maltese government that does not help either welcomes immigrants but derive profit on inflatable boats business.
In short, it's just a matter of will and political capacity. If the Italian government's priorities are still the national interests now prove it: in a week we can clear streams with the same vessels that we have used so far to enrich the traffickers and the reception lobby.

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