Abroad
Veteran Member
This is an article sketching the issues at the Southern border to Europe. I cannot help comparing it to the descriptions I have heard of the border to Mexico and the migrants crossing there. There are some obvious differences, but the basic problem seems to be the same.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28159997
More than 66,000 migrants and refugees have arrived on Italy's shores this year. But many don't survive the journey - and when the Italian navy went to help migrants crammed on to a boat near Sicily, they were shocked by what they found.
The first images were tranquil enough. A fishing boat sat on a bay in Sicily in the summer sunshine.
As gusts of wind ruffled the water around her, she swung a little on her mooring.
There was nothing in that television picture to suggest that there was anything wrong.
But down in her blue hull, the boat carried a dreadful cargo. A hold packed with bodies. A great tangle of corpses.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28159997