Human rights observers say the Tunisian authorities are conducting illegal “collective expulsions” of migrants, with funds from the European Union. They say that the practice is becoming increasingly common.
The fear is there, day and night, said Mamadou from Chad, who asked that DW not use his full name for fear of reprisals, recounting what happened to him earlier this month after he failed to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa with the help of human traffickers.
“The Tunisian Coast Guard officers took our cell phones and our money, then they drove us to the Libyan border where they stripped us and left us alone,” he told DW from his hiding place: An olive grove near Tunisia’s port city of Sfax. He said he had walked around 240 kilometers (ca. 150 miles) through the desert to get there.
This is the result of paying off developing countries to keep refugees out of the EU because right wing media has successfully planted the idea into the heads of people that they come here in a conspiracy to replace us, steal our jobs, our unemployment benefits, our women, all at the same time.
God I love our western and Christian values that made all of this possible. Have never been prouder to be European, we are a beacon of humanity.
They’re going to have a really hard time stopping those dark-skinned refugees from the wilds of the Orient once the Himalayan glaciers are gone.
“Oh no, we need to stop climate change!”
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It unironically might be the only way some folk will listen.
