| Even as EU border patrols search for some 70 migrants who went missing near Malta on Aug. 27, the people of the smallest EU state are becoming fed up with rising illegal immigration. The 70 disappeared when they were swept off a flimsy craft which capsized after it left Libya, according to eight fellow travelers who managed to cling onto the vessel long enough to be rescued. It is one of the worst tragedies involving would-be immigrants in the Mediterranean -- yet the Maltese newspaper's online readers' forum offered little, if any, compassion. Instead, anger was directed at the thousands of Africans who attempt to cross the waters to Europe. |
From Anonyma - 08 Sep 2008 @ 06:34 am
It is an EU problem let them deal with - we have our own problem. The last thing we need is refugees from Africa. 
