Greece illegal immigrant boat disaster: More than 300 Pakistanis dead in Mediterranean tragedy, official says
Greece illegal immigrant boat disaster: More than 300 Pakistanis dead in Mediterranean tragedy, official says
More than 300 Pakistani nationals have been killed in the sinking of a overcrowded fishing trawler off the coast of Greece, the latest tragedy to expose the refugee crisis confronting the European Union as tens of thousands seek sanctuary from war, persecution and poverty.
And everyone posting attention to some millionaires in their submarine doing this as an option instead of as a need to get a better life, escape hunger or poverty.
Possible rescue story is more interesting than hundreds dead. It’s sad but we hear about death all the time at this point.
TBF the boat disaster could have been a rescue story as well if someone cared enough. There are two major countries naval fleets in the Atlantic, whereas the story is much different in the Mediterranean.
Europe has been dealing with illegal migrants just like this for decades. It's not a new story. The arguments have been made a million times already. Governments argue they need to stop these illegal crossing because they're dangerous, and they're shouted down by activists who believe there are no borders or something. There are billions of poor people in the world. They can't all fit in Europe. I'm sorry, but not every poor person deserves the right to life-long social security in a European country. We would collapse.
Honestly this sort of smug superiority cloaked in a thousand years of oppression is so fucking obnoxious.
Why is Europe so rich? What allows you to afford those social systems? Could it have been the systematic pillaging of the economies of the places whose refugees you now so smugly ‘decline’ helping.
The way you frame keeping people from dying at sea as some great burden to the state is fucking disgusting.
You fucking disgust me, frankly.
The article doesn't say they were illegal immigrants, did you make that part up?
Greek here, they were illegal immigrants. They were helpless people in a boat with a broken engine. They were people fleeing from a war. They were people that didn't ask for help fearing pushbacks, concetration camps, and police abuse. They were people the coast guard stood and watched them die for 3 days.
What war were they fleeing?
Pakistan is not engaged in any hot conflicts currently... These people are economic refugees.