Migrants Stranded At Sea

[-SharonA-]

Italy is refusing to allow a boat with over 600 migrants to dock at it's ports. https://news.sky.com/story/italy-shuts-ports-to-rescue-ship-carrying-over-600-migrants-11401125. Good on Italy. I bet you ask those migrants where they're aiming for, I bet they say England!!

[murraymints]

send medical care and all supplies required for the boat to have a safe passage home..

[Old_Geezer]

Original link seems to be missing a page now. This one still exists https://news.sky.com/story/italy-shuts-ports-to-rescue-ship-carrying-over-600-migrants-11401125

One hasn't lost humanity by showing folk that they ought not put their lives at risk as they will gain nothing. Au contraire it may save lives.

[kvalidir]

Children are dying, what the hell is wrong with you people?

[murraymints]

link will not open for me spathy... have no info to that effect..but a charitable organisation ought to have checked the receptiveness of the intended host country before subjecting the passengers to this situation...

[anneasquith]

I'm so glad I know none of you on a personal basis, :-(

[Old_Geezer]

If they haven't permission to enter then they aren't migrants. They are hoping to enter and become citizens anyway, without just cause, which makes them illegal whoever shipped them over and sought to dump them on Italy's shore.

[naomi24]

Too much emotion being bandied about here and it's clouding the issue. The bottom line is Europe cannot take a never-ending influx of people so what’s the solution?

[Old_Geezer]

What is wrong with you people wanting to retain this problem continually when the solution is in the hands of those on the ship to turn back ?

[NoMercy]

And children are being raped across Europe by migrants, Kval. What the hell is wrong with you?

Don't bother to answer that, my day awaits...

[murraymints]

treat any that require medical assistance..ensure that supplies are adequate and repatriate.. if they are illegals....

[gness]

And why are some of you assuming that by showing concern or pity for the people on this ship we are saying.....let them come here.....use our schools, NHS and housing......we are not saying that..well I'm not.
I am simply angered by some of the comments aimed at people in a horrid position.

[ToraToraTora]

why do they not head south on the continent to the more prosperous areas of Africa? (rht)

[naomi24]

kvalidir, //Children are dying, what the hell is wrong with you people?//

Interesting that you should mention that. Doubtless we all remember the picture that made international headlines of the tragic little body of a dead four year old washed up on a European beach? The story was that his family were fleeing war torn Syria – and the world wept for them. However, it transpired that they weren’t fleeing war torn Syria at all. They had been living safely in Turkey for the previous four years. They were economic migrants. The father, the only survivor of a family of four chose to return to Syria.

We HAVE to think with our heads. Europe cannot sustain uncontrolled immigration - no matter where it's from.

[kvalidir]

Too many people too comfortable with their own dumb luck twee existence. We are ALL so privileged. I'm outta here because I am really angry at the glibness. You all seem to be missing the point, it's not the opinion that they ought not come here, it's the absolute glee and lack of compassion and understanding that people are objecting to. It's akin to bear baiting.

[naomi24]

spath, //these are genuine people trying to flee from war... //

Those coming from Africa are in the main ... not. They are economic migrants.

[murraymints]

what a mess ! the poor passengers are the innocents in this utter fiasco

[naomi24]

Murraymints, they choose to make the journey.