Nearly 600 Rescued Migrants Disembark From Charity Boat in Italy
10th July 2021
Hundreds of migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean disembarked on Friday in the southern Italian town of Augusta, in Sicily, after Rome-based maritime authorities agreed to give their ship a port.
The Ocean Viking vessel, operated by SOS Mediterranee, carried 572 people, including around 180 minors, after picking them up in six separate operations in Maltese and Libyan search and rescue areas, the European NGO said.
The way this ‘rescue’ scam works is as follows: Migrants set out from North Africa in some wretched excuse for a boat (often having notified one of these ‘charity’ NGOs beforehnd). As soon as they are outside of the original country’s territorial waters, an NGO ‘charity boat’ swoop in and ‘rescues’ them, then takes them the rest of the way to whichever EU country is the easiest target that day. Once they land as ‘refugees’, they get all sorts of assistance and benefits, eventually disappearing into mainland Europe where they can huddle together in ethnic ghettos and cause problems for local police and citizenry.
Many Mediterranean coastal municipalities are getting wise to this racket and refusing to let them land, triggering massive hand-wringing on the part of the Usual Suspects.