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Italy bans planes that search for migrant boats from using airports
(www.independent.co.uk)
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European migration laws forces these people to conduct this dangerous voyage because you can't get asylum without crossing the border. These operations are stimulating people to set out on the dangerous journey. It's the cobra effect.
Migration laws should allow people to apply for asylum in their respective country without risking their lives on a makeshift raft over ocean. Volunteers searching for these boats off shore are stimulating more trafficking of migrants.
These migrants are transported by people making money of their missery. There is no safety measures or care if they make it or not. It's a machine making money. Not humanitarian intents.
This is one of these "maybe true in theory" but counter productive arguments.
Irregular migration has been on the rise for many years and the ratio of success is high enough that people risk it regardless of whether or not there are planes looking for ships in distress.
But there is another reason why the Italian government doesn't want these planes flying: they are unwelcome witnesses to illegal pushback operations that the Italians and Maltese (and Frontex) are doing in cooperation with Libyanese mafia militia.