Italian Prosecutor: Evidence NGOs Colluding with Human Traffickers

BY BBC NEWS An Italian prosecutor says he has evidence some of the charities saving migrants in the Mediterranean Sea are colluding with people-smugglers. Carmelo Zuccaro told La Stampa (in Italian) phone calls were being made from Libya to rescue vessels. Organisations involved in rescue operations have rejected accusations of collusion, saying their only concern […]

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The Traffic Racket: The Activist Syndicate and the EU

By Red Sea Fisher, IN PART one of our series on the “The Traffic Racket,” we spoke about the dubious roles of Eritrean “activists” Mussie Zerai, Meron Estefanos, and Elsa Chyrum. We spoke about the role of misinformed journalists and sometimes outright biased activist-journalists like Dan Connell, who have been promoting the work of the […]

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Britain Refuses to Accept EU Migrant Resettlement Plan

By Reuters, BRITAIN said on Tuesday it would not participate in any European Union plan to resettle refugees using country quotas, saying it preferred to focus its efforts on tackling people traffickers instead. The European Commission is planning to legislate before the end of the year to ensure the burden of housing immigrants is shared […]

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