28 illegal migrants found dead in boat offshore Libyan water
Tripoli, Libya:
Libyan fishermen has found the bodies of 28 illegal migrants who appeared to have died of thirst and hunger after their boat broke down off the coast of Sabratha city, a ministry of interior official said on Tuesday.
Since Libya fell into chaos after Muammar Gaddafi's fall in 2011, the North African country is the main departure point for migrants hoping to reach Europe by sea.
More than 150,000 have made the crossing to Italy annually over the past three years. Interior Ministry security unit commander Ahmaida Khalifa Amsalam told Reuters the 28 migrants, including four women, had been found after sunset by the fishermen who towed the vessel to shore. The victims were buried together in a cemetery for illegal migrants, he said.
"Their boat stopped in the middle of the water because the engine was broken," he said. He did not give details on any of the nationalities but many illegal migrants are from sub-Saharan Africa. Smugglers often pack migrants in flimsy inflatable dinghies, dispatching them to sea to get picked up by rescue ships and other vessels once they reach international waters. Some are intercepted and turned back by the Libyan coastguard.
And in USA comes a report that Arrests of Illegal Immigrants has Jumped to 32% in Trump's First Month.
Arrests of illegal immigrants are reportedly up by one-third in the early weeks of the Trump administration, with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) making more than 21,000 arrests.
The Washington Post reported last Sunday that the total, from January 20 through mid-March, jumped 32.6 percent from the same period one year ago, when there were more than 16,000 arrests.
The report stated that most of the arrests were of convicted criminals, but noted that there were 5,441 arrests of non-criminal aliens, more than double the total from last year.
Adam Housley reported this morning that ICE detainers - requests to local authorities to hold criminal aliens - are up 75 percent, to more than 22,000.
In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," DHS Secretary John Kelly said the definition of "criminal" has not changed, "but where on the spectrum of criminality we operate has changed."
For example, he said ICE agents may move to deport an individual with multiple DUI offenses. He said in the past, those individuals would have been "unlikely" to be deported.
"The law deports people. Secretary Kelly doesn't. ICE doesn't. It's the United States criminal justice system that deports people," he said.
Tags: #MediterraneanSea #Libya #IllegalImmigrants
Libyan fishermen has found the bodies of 28 illegal migrants who appeared to have died of thirst and hunger after their boat broke down off the coast of Sabratha city, a ministry of interior official said on Tuesday.
Since Libya fell into chaos after Muammar Gaddafi's fall in 2011, the North African country is the main departure point for migrants hoping to reach Europe by sea.
More than 150,000 have made the crossing to Italy annually over the past three years. Interior Ministry security unit commander Ahmaida Khalifa Amsalam told Reuters the 28 migrants, including four women, had been found after sunset by the fishermen who towed the vessel to shore. The victims were buried together in a cemetery for illegal migrants, he said.
"Their boat stopped in the middle of the water because the engine was broken," he said. He did not give details on any of the nationalities but many illegal migrants are from sub-Saharan Africa. Smugglers often pack migrants in flimsy inflatable dinghies, dispatching them to sea to get picked up by rescue ships and other vessels once they reach international waters. Some are intercepted and turned back by the Libyan coastguard.
And in USA comes a report that Arrests of Illegal Immigrants has Jumped to 32% in Trump's First Month.
Arrests of illegal immigrants are reportedly up by one-third in the early weeks of the Trump administration, with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) making more than 21,000 arrests.
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Tripoli, Libya: Libyan
fishermen found the bodies of 28 illegal migrants who appeared to have
died of thirst and hunger after their boat broke down off the coast of
Sabratha city, a ministry of interior official said on Tuesday.
Since Libya fell into chaos after Muammar Gaddafi's fall in 2011, the
North African country is the main departure point for migrants hoping to
reach Europe by sea. More than 150,000 have made the crossing to Italy
annually over the past three years.
Interior Ministry security unit commander Ahmaida Khalifa Amsalam told
Reuters the 28 migrants, including four women, had been found after
sunset by the fishermen who towed the vessel to shore. The victims were
buried together in a cemetery for illegal migrants, he said
Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001236845/libya-fishermen-find-28-dead-migrants-in-boat-of
Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001236845/libya-fishermen-find-28-dead-migrants-in-boat-of
The Washington Post reported last Sunday that the total, from January 20 through mid-March, jumped 32.6 percent from the same period one year ago, when there were more than 16,000 arrests.
The report stated that most of the arrests were of convicted criminals, but noted that there were 5,441 arrests of non-criminal aliens, more than double the total from last year.
Adam Housley reported this morning that ICE detainers - requests to local authorities to hold criminal aliens - are up 75 percent, to more than 22,000.
In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," DHS Secretary John Kelly said the definition of "criminal" has not changed, "but where on the spectrum of criminality we operate has changed."
For example, he said ICE agents may move to deport an individual with multiple DUI offenses. He said in the past, those individuals would have been "unlikely" to be deported.
"The law deports people. Secretary Kelly doesn't. ICE doesn't. It's the United States criminal justice system that deports people," he said.
Tags: #MediterraneanSea #Libya #IllegalImmigrants
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