"You have to make life difficult for" migrants

[JustAnotherGen]

With Europe’s support, North African nations push migrants to the desert

These operations target SubSaharan (Black/African) migrants. It's a joint effort between Morocco, Tunisia, and Mauritania - and the European Union. Not ALL of the Maghreb Union countries are involved - but this EU initiative ($100's of millions of Euros to specific countries in North Africa) is definitely an alliance with the Arab/Berber majority countries.

And oh - yeah - EU? Liars liars pants on fire.

There is no way they don't know that people are being sent on greater than 300 mile journeys across the desert. The cruelty is the point.

Gift Article from my WaPo Subscription - so all should be able to access this: https://wapo.st/3UQ292T

A year-long joint investigation by The Washington Post, Lighthouse Reports and a consortium of international media outlets shows how the European Union and individual European nations are supporting and financing aggressive operations by governments in North Africa to detain tens of thousands of migrants each year and dump them in remote areas, often barren deserts.

European funds have been used to train personnel and buy equipment for units implicated in desert dumps and human rights abuses, records and interviews show. Migrants have been pushed back into the most inhospitable parts of North Africa, exposing them to abandonment with no food or water, kidnapping, extortion, sale as human chattel, torture, sexual violence and, in the worst instances, death.

In Tunisia, visual evidence and testimony were used to verify 11 dumps — of as many as 90 migrants each — in the desert near the borders with Libya and Algeria, one as recent as this month, as well as one instance in which migrants were handed over at the Libyan border and detained. At least 29 people were reported to have died, with dozens missing after being dumped or expelled from Tunisia on the Libyan border, according to the United Nations Support Mission in Libya and humanitarian organizations.

The investigation established through witness testimony, videos taken by reporters and footage verified by The Post that anti-migrant operations often involve raids or random street roundups based on racial profiling — the use of which has been acknowledged in E.U. documents. One internal report on Morocco from Frontex, obtained through a freedom of information request, noted “allegations of racial profiling and excessive use of force by the police and other law enforcement officials against migrants, asylum-seekers, and refugees, as well as arbitrary arrests, detentions, and forced relocation from the north to the south, which disproportionately affected migrants from sub-Saharan countries

The article is pretty in depth and detailed. IE - they didn't slapdash this together.

[Voltaire2]

1. The drownings were an unacceptable embarrassment.

This way the refugees can just go die in the desert away from public view.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. EU never thought

They would get caught.

[jimfields33]

2. So tell Africa to stop. Why should Europe get

involved in another continent? Africa is obviously not treating their population properly. Tell them to stop. It’s their own population to take care of.

[John Shaft]

3. Africa isn't a country

[jimfields33]

4. Didn't say it was. In fact, I put continent on my post.

[John Shaft]

5. So how does the continent of Africa

go about taking care of anything?

The continent of Africa doesn't have a government.

Or are "those people" all the same in your head?

[jimfields33]

6. Ok. So individual countries put pressure on the

Illegal acts. Just like the states do here or the eu countries do in some cases in Europe. Africa doesn’t get a free ride just because individual countries don’t want to get involved. Heck, even Mexico and Canada get on the United States at times when we do something they don’t like.

[Torchlight]

7. lol ok nt

[jimfields33]

9. Yeah!

Thank you.

[Voltaire2]

8. What exactly should 'Africa' stop?

[NanaCat]

11. Not stopping brown people from leaving, apparently

That's what such mewlings tend to boil down to.