• Akulagr@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    This is such a complex issue but it is baffling that whenever there is an incident such as the one that happened recently, the whole blame is always placed in the government agencies rather than the criminals that organise and charge for such dangerous crossings.

    • homoludens@feddit.deOP
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      1 year ago

      Well, I’d like to hold government agencies to a higher standard than human traffickers. That the criminals who organize these crossings are scum isn’t really disputed by anyone.

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      1 year ago

      Okay but what are European citizens supposed to do about the traffickers? They can reform the coast guard and rescue operations to save as many people as possible, but they can’t necessarily reach into foreign countries and take down human smuggling operations or remove the incentives that cause those operations to spring up in the first place. Except by making immigration as easy and facilitated as possible themselves, so people don’t have to resort to the smugglers’ unsafe and expensive operations to escape their situations, but this seems like it might be politically a taller order at the moment than fixing the rescue systems. And it likewise doesn’t punish the traffickers, but tbh all I care about is that people stop dying in the ocean so close to people who could help them and don’t.