A fishing boat crowded with migrants traveling from Libya to Italy sank in Greek waters last week. While hundreds are still missing and feared dead, it has garnered far less attention and resources than the Titan rescue efforts for five people.
I hate to say it, but a boat-load of illegal migrants capsizing is… normal. It happens so often it’s not unusual. And you can’t solve it. The crappy situation that forced these migrants to leave on a super sketchy overloaded boat is much harder to solve than, say, banning tourist dives at the Titanic wreck.
Bullshit. It’s pretty goddamn easy to solve - they could have rescued those people any damn time they felt like it, but they didn’t. They literally had a Greek coastal vessel shadowing that ship for hours.
But they will spend billions searching for these five “upstanding members of society” - that they will do.
The root cause of migrants fleeing their countries by any means necessary, like overloading a boat, which happens far too frequently, is not easily solved. You could easily argue that billions are spent on attempting to mitigate migrant issues on a yearly basis too, yet overloaded boats still keep killing dozens of people every year.
I hate to say it, but a boat-load of illegal migrants capsizing is… normal. It happens so often it’s not unusual. And you can’t solve it. The crappy situation that forced these migrants to leave on a super sketchy overloaded boat is much harder to solve than, say, banning tourist dives at the Titanic wreck.
Pretty sure they’re called refugees.
Okay, you say that, but aren’t people also being prosecuted for trying to help?
Bullshit. It’s pretty goddamn easy to solve - they could have rescued those people any damn time they felt like it, but they didn’t. They literally had a Greek coastal vessel shadowing that ship for hours.
But they will spend billions searching for these five “upstanding members of society” - that they will do.
The root cause of migrants fleeing their countries by any means necessary, like overloading a boat, which happens far too frequently, is not easily solved. You could easily argue that billions are spent on attempting to mitigate migrant issues on a yearly basis too, yet overloaded boats still keep killing dozens of people every year.