https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10949305/More-2-000-migrants-storm-fence-Spanish-enclave-bordering-Morocco-chaotic-scenes.htmlSome 2,000 migrants made approached the EU's only land border with Africa at dawn over 500 managed to enter a border control area after cutting a fence with shears, the Spanish government's local delegation said in a statement.
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Speaking in Brussels, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned the 'violent assault' which he blamed on 'mafias who traffic in human beings'.
Video showed the migrants cheering and raising their arms in celebration as they ran through the streets of Melilla after storming the fence.
Sanchez is another of those who doesn't understand (or pretends not to understand) the difference between smuggling and trafficking:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/debunking-rightist-anti-immigration-arguments/msg9868/?topicseen#msg9868Another vocabulary point I want to clear up is the difference between human smuggling and human trafficking, which many people nowadays often use interchangeably. Our enemies in particular like to call human smugglers "human traffickers", for example:
news.yahoo.com/salvini-dismisses-eu-migrant-ship-proposals-emergency-talks-224118678.html
"While France and Germany continue to want Italy to be one of the very few landing countries, we are working on a solid Mediterranean axis which wants to change the rules and crush human trafficking," Salvini tweeted.
Of course Salvini is subhuman bullshitting.
Human smuggling involves people who themselves want to migrate, but who are violently prevented by one or more states from doing so openly, voluntarily seeking out the smuggler to transport them under the radar in exchange for money. This is a contractual agreement of mutual prior consent between the migrant and the smuggler, therefore wholly non-violent. Of course there exist greedy smugglers who take advantage of migrants' desperation (and lack of options during an emergency refugee crisis) by charging extremely high prices for the service, but if states were concerned about protecting migrants from smuggler greed, their best response should be to allow migrants to enter/leave openly (and indeed offer state-run transportation as necessary during emergencies), thereby obviating the need for smuggling.
Human trafficking is a different phenomenon entirely. It involves people who themselves never agreed to migrate, but who are violently kidnapped by the trafficker and moved into a different country without their own consent (often threatened with death for non-compliance), and in effect become slaves owned by the trafficker, unable to ever choose their own occupation/residence/etc. and instead permanently restricted to work/habitat permitted by the trafficker, often involving unhealthy/dangerous conditions that the victims would never have voluntarily subjected themselves to.
In case you haven't noticed by now, deportation = human trafficking done by a state.Salvini, who talks about crushing "human trafficking", is the actual trafficker.
To supplement this, preventing entry of refugees (such as Sanchez is doing) can also be considered human trafficking in effect, in that it violently keeps refugees where they do not want to be.
Smugglers are the good guys. They help refugees to get where they themselves want to go. Smugglers make this happen:
Border troops are the bad guys. They keep refugees where they themselves do not want to be, and kill them if they resist. Border troops make this happen:
Back to first link:
There are fears that drought in Africa and surging food prices - even before the war made shipping Ukrainian grain to Somalia, Egypt and other poor nations impossible - could drive up the number of migrants fleeing to Europe.
Refugees need to get armed, or else border troops will just keep beating them to death. A bladed weapon of some sort should be the absolute minimum for each refugee prior to an attempt at crossing a closed border.
Sanchez earlier this month warned that 'Spain will not tolerate any use of the tragedy of illegal immigration as a means of pressure.'
Spain will seek to have 'irregular migration' listed as one of the security threats on the NATO's southern flank when the alliance gathers for a summit in Madrid on June 29-30.
Looks like we will soon be adding Spain as a whole to the Enemies forum, considering Sanchez belongs to a nominally left-leaning party yet wants to keep out refugees. The only reason I have not done so yet is because, to be fair, Sanchez did accept some Afghan refugees earlier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_S%C3%A1nchezFollowing the fall of Kabul and the subsequent de facto creation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Prime Minister offered Spain as a hub for Afghans who collaborated with the European Union, which would later be settled in various countries.[50] The Spanish government created a temporary refugee camp in the air base of Torrejón de Ardoz, which was later visited by officials from the European Union, including president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and president of the European Council Charles Michel. Von der Leyen praised Sánchez government's initiative, stating that the actions of Spain represents "a good example of the European soul at its best".[51]
I will be watching him closely.
In the Sahel, the part of Africa just below the Sahara desert, an estimated 18 million people are facing severe hunger as farmers endure their worst production season in more than a decade.
Their only hope is to get into the EU. As it says on the Nike sweater: