The vast majority of migrants reach Europe either by a full boat crossing, followed by those rescued by coastguard and only then NGO SAR ships. So it’s rather unlikely that they have a huge impact.
There is no correlation between crossing attempts, arrivals and NGO SAR ship activity. Both if you look short term (i.e. over a few months in a year) or even long term since the end of EU funded SAR operations. There are studies that both support and oppose the “pull factor” theory for NGO SAR ships – though the support is only in regards to where people migrate to, not if they decide to migrate.
>Matteo Villa, an Italian expert on migration, took to Twitter to state that the number of departures **with NGOs’ boats** in the search and rescue area is **125 a day**, in comparison with **135 daily departures when NGOs were not at sea**.
Frontex better show some data for such a claim that seems to be contested
The migrants welcome crowd is making the problem worse, this is also why merkels decision in 2015 was disastrous. It showed everone waiting in the wings but who had not yet commited to making the trek that their “dream” life in europe was possible. I don’t blame the migrants, they are making the best decisions for themselves but we must do the same for us and having millions of random third worlders walk into our countries every year is very much against our interest.
Our mainstream politicians however don’t seem to care hence the growing disconnect and rise of the far right.
And saving people at sea instead of letting them drown and starve is one of civilizations oldest and noblest customs, so what are you gonna do.
>On Wednesday (23 November), the European Parliament held a debate on migration, at which most EU lawmakers agreed on the legitimacy of NGOs’ presence at sea.
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No shit…
And Columbus discovered America I heard…
The vast majority of migrants reach Europe either by a full boat crossing, followed by those rescued by coastguard and only then NGO SAR ships. So it’s rather unlikely that they have a huge impact.
There is no correlation between crossing attempts, arrivals and NGO SAR ship activity. Both if you look short term (i.e. over a few months in a year) or even long term since the end of EU funded SAR operations. There are studies that both support and oppose the “pull factor” theory for NGO SAR ships – though the support is only in regards to where people migrate to, not if they decide to migrate.
>Matteo Villa, an Italian expert on migration, took to Twitter to state that the number of departures **with NGOs’ boats** in the search and rescue area is **125 a day**, in comparison with **135 daily departures when NGOs were not at sea**.
Frontex better show some data for such a claim that seems to be contested
The migrants welcome crowd is making the problem worse, this is also why merkels decision in 2015 was disastrous. It showed everone waiting in the wings but who had not yet commited to making the trek that their “dream” life in europe was possible. I don’t blame the migrants, they are making the best decisions for themselves but we must do the same for us and having millions of random third worlders walk into our countries every year is very much against our interest.
Our mainstream politicians however don’t seem to care hence the growing disconnect and rise of the far right.
And saving people at sea instead of letting them drown and starve is one of civilizations oldest and noblest customs, so what are you gonna do.
>On Wednesday (23 November), the European Parliament held a debate on migration, at which most EU lawmakers agreed on the legitimacy of NGOs’ presence at sea.
Please no.
https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/video/key-debate-the-need-for-a-european-solution-on-asylum-and-migration-including-search-and-rescue-one-round-of-political-group-leaders_I233850
It’s not translated to English so pretty useless for most.