Black Malta Times

Image by Irish Defence Forces Immigration Report from Malta by Joe Pollitt Migrants in Malta are seemingly, the property of Malta, fingerprinted on arrival, treated as criminals and then processed like cattle. After a year and half in the Detention Centres they enter a country that has little, if any, prospects for them. If the migrant tries to leave for other European countries they are deported and sent back. Their lives are no more valuable than slaves and their rights of movement denied. They have no chance to live in more respectable European countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Italy and Germany. From the minute they leave on boats from Tripoli heading for Malta the migrant is robbed daily. The USA containers full of clothes, shoes, suits is taken by the guards in the Detention Centres, who believe that this is just one of the perks of the job. After risking life and limb to enter Europe they find Malta equally, if not more, corrupt than the countries they have fled ...

African migrants: What really drives them to Europe? We head to a Libyan detention centre to meet African migrants who risk everything in search of a better life. 06 Jun 2015 10:18 GMT Thousands of Africans put their lives at risk as they go on a boat journey in search of what they think would be a better and easier living. It is a journey that begins with hope, but often ends in despair. Most of them depart from Libya late at night, travelling across the Mediterranean Sea in broad streams with Italy as their central destination. We all travel to get to plant a new life. We Africans we believe that if you go to Europe your life is good. Patrick Jabbi, 27, a Congolese migrant Last year, more than 170,000 migrants arrived there, representing the largest influx of people into one country in European Union history. Most of the migrants are Eritrean and Syrian but numerous Africans from sub-Saharan regions also use this route. This year almost 2,000 peop...