Migrant Smugglers Making $518,000 Or So Per Boatload to Europe

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Apparently, smuggling migrants into Europe is big business and brings big money — up to $518,000 per boatload, according to recent estimates from intelligence agencies.

Meanwhile, the European Union continues to insist it’s doing all it can to stop the flood of illegals.

Buying an ocean crossing to Italy and other European points costs plenty of money — but is a big profit venture for the smugglers.

Yet they’re still coming — by the boatload.

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And it’s not as if the crafts they’re crossing waters in are exactly high speed, high tech. No.

Some of them are little more than makeshift floats, ramshackle old boats, rubber rafts, vessels that seem constructed by human hands in rapid time.

The Express has the story (thanks to Jihad Watch):

“Under the Malta Declaration signed early in 2017, the [European Union] bloc agreed to pay the Libyan coastguard to stop boats launching from the beaches.

“However, £78million [$99.5 million] later and after weeks of training, desperate men, women and children hoping to seek asylum in Europe are still making they way towards Italy.

“Most tell harrowing tales of life in Libya, from being sold on an active slave market to being raped and beaten.

“Following dramatic rescues this week by Spanish non-governmental organisation GO Proactiva Open Arms, many refugees revealed they have sold everything they own to fund their trip.

“In just one day a flimsy rubber boat, which held 128 people, was rescued by the charity, followed by a wooden ship which held 261.

“In the rubber boat, migrants paid up to £850 each, while in the wooden vessel the price of a space was up to £1,700 [$2,167].”

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Michael Copeland
Michael Copeland
6 years ago

“Search and Rescue”, said EU’s Federica Mogherini (a communist) and UN’s tainted Peter Sutherland, migration promoter.
Search and Rescue really means Assisting People-Traffickers.

Otis
Otis
6 years ago

In the end it’s all about money. Certain people are getting filthy rich off of importing the world’s dregs into the West. Religous organizations, Corporatists, Politicians, as well as various psycholibs on the Left who imagine some utopian society dreamed up from the pit of hell.

Trump can't ban islam
Trump can't ban islam
6 years ago

the west needs muslims more than muslims need the west. mohammad rewards his followers anyway

Ebayer
Ebayer
6 years ago

Can’t go on forever. A breaking point will eventually be reached. Political elites hung or shot then the Sons O’ the Desert dealt with.

Trump Blue Me
Trump Blue Me
6 years ago
Reply to  Ebayer

You mean Jews?

Leonard Fischer
Leonard Fischer
6 years ago

Yes, we need Mudslimes to feed out pigs and dogs.

Trump Blue Me
Trump Blue Me
6 years ago

That’s what we do to Jews!

Ebayer
Ebayer
6 years ago

Big Business wants as many consumers of their products as they can get. They profit greatly from Western countries with open border policies. These fat cats pay the traitors like Merkel handsomely for destroying their nations. Lots of rope needed to hang all the POS’s involved.

RealEngineer2
RealEngineer2
6 years ago

Look at that picture, another “boatload” of “multiculturalism”, destined for welfare in multi-generational perpetuity.

People from ANYWHERE regress to the “norms” of their demographic nationality within one generation. Civilization is VERY “IQ” based, and, if third worlders still can’t figure out “water wells” (something our European
Neolithic ancestors could do with STONE TOOLS), despite CENTURIES of endless “aid” and “training” from missionaries, benevolent societies, and charity, plainly put- they likely never will no matter where they are.

Why low IQ? According to Nicolai Sennels, a Danish psychologist who has done extensive research into Muslim inbreeding, close to half of all Muslims in the world are inbred:

—Between 54% and 70% of Muslim Pakistanis, Saudi Arabians, Jordanians, Kuwaitis, Sudanese, Iraqis, United Arab Emirati, Qataris are inbred- as are 30% of Turks.
—In England, at least 55% of Pakistani immigrants are married to their first cousins.
—In Denmark the number of inbred Pakistani immigrants is “around 40%.”

They can’t compete for jobs, then rage “discrimination”. Liberals compromise with quota hiring to maintain a veneer of “equality”, and construct an entire “political theology”; “Refugees” and their collaborators now demand “allegiance to” and “appreciation for” representative demographics of terrorists AND THEIR ATROCITIES (since anything else provokes more terrorism at fault of the victim, who “got what they deserve” for “what their privilege represents”…)

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  RealEngineer2

By the time the Left/Liberal Loons wake up and realise their stupidity it would be too late.

Most of these Left/liberals are spineless cowards and will submit rather than fight back. just the way 56 muslim majority countries gave into Islam.

And Now In Sweden Muslim invaders posing as unaccompanied refugee “children” threaten to kill Swedes if not allowed to stay http://bit.ly/2pLFV6i

Otis
Otis
6 years ago
Reply to  RealEngineer2

Bottom line: Those who control the borders are responsible. They must have the primary position in front of the firing squads.

Jenny
Jenny
6 years ago
Reply to  RealEngineer2

And this is what Merkel brings in for native German girls to breed with? The low IQ offspring and baby jihads won’t be able to maintain any western civilisation. It will regress to the mean.

Dilbert Delaney
Dilbert Delaney
6 years ago
Reply to  Jenny

Yes but at least they will have that nice desert-baked tan look.

Trump Blue Me
Trump Blue Me
6 years ago

Like trump.

CHARLES S
CHARLES S
6 years ago
Reply to  Trump Blue Me

Jealous?

Trump Blue Me
Trump Blue Me
6 years ago
Reply to  CHARLES S

Nope

CHARLES S
CHARLES S
6 years ago
Reply to  RealEngineer2

And that, my friend, is why they are MOSTLY ALL on welfare…..
The lifetime cost of so many refugees could be over $65 BILLION-SYRIAN IMMIGRANTS
Most of these immigrants will be poorly educated and will not know English. Most will end up on welfare. In fact, the latest data reveal that 91.4% of recent refugees from the Middle East receive Food Stamps. Many Democratic lawmakers have reacted to Obama’s acceptance of 10,000 refugees by calling for 100,000 — that’s 10 times more. The lifetime cost of so many refugees could be over $65 BILLION!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

This is how the european union makes up for its lesses in the depressed economy of today. The real costs only start after colonization and social upheaval start. Soon the boats will be going the other way, with erropean beggars and thieves colonizing the middle east.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Good point, the real costs are mainly down the road, so they can get away with bad strategy and policy over the short run, kicking the can down the road for others to deal with in the future.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
6 years ago

Those Syrians got a heck of a suntan on the open water

M.D. Roud
M.D. Roud
6 years ago

Look up “volunteer agencies” or Volags. this migrant scam is an industry that may be worth trillions of dollars. 2000 dollars is just for moving refugees, 4000 dollars to resettle, I have heard. There is money to be made and regular people, from armed men to innocent children are paying the price in blood for greed. They don’t care about us.

CHARLES S
CHARLES S
6 years ago
Reply to  M.D. Roud

Don’t forget to include Catholic Charities and all the other ‘greedy’ religious organizations (who care nothing about the ”safety” of our citizens).
Catholic Charities, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, World Relief Corporation, Church World Service, and Domestic and Foreign Missionary Service of the Episcopal Church of the USA all have contracts with the federal government to resettle refugees, with a significant number of them Islamic. These religious institutions often use collection plates on Sunday that their members believe is going to help poor Christians, or the Church itself, then turn around to use them for refugee resettlement.

Within four months, these
institutions have no responsibility to even know where the refugee is.
It’s a beautiful thing for them. They get rich, and can still fly the
false flag of moral superiority.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
6 years ago

Yes, that is a major part of the problem, criminals making a profit out of smuggling them in, etc.

Leonard Fischer
Leonard Fischer
6 years ago

Thank God I live in central Europe. We don’t give them welfare and we don’t want them around. On the other hand western Europe is doomed.

Trump Blue Me
Trump Blue Me
6 years ago

Phuque u @$$ whole!

Jeremy Steering
Jeremy Steering
6 years ago

Not needed. Not wanted. But the only thing that will stop them coming is to shut off the welfare tap completely. They know very well from the many who have already made it that should they manage to enter one of the ‘soft touch’ countries like Britain, although illegally, the second they trigger the asylum process they will be given housing, free medical care and cash payments. Why wouldn’t they keep trying when the welfare honeypot is ready and waiting?

marlene
marlene
6 years ago

(2399) The Truth About ‘Refugees’ – YouTube paul joseph watson 5/29/17
Those boatloads of Africans you see on their way to Europe are not coming from Syria – THEY’RE AFRICAN & THEY’RE NOT REFUGEES. They’re NOT being ‘rescued’ off the coast of Italy. They have cash for a ticket on a smuggle boat (1,500 euros give or take) so are NOT DESTITUTE. The people smugglers then transport the migrants to a position just 12 miles off coast of Libya, They send out a distress call – ‘Ok? Are you ok?’ ‘Hello?’ – & the migrants are picked up by EU & NGO vessels – ‘We are well. We are NGO, OK? We are friends’. It’s literally a taxi service straight to Europe. The law states that the refugees should be taken to the nearest safe port, which would be Tunisia, BUT these NGOs are taking them straight to Italy. An investigation in Italy found that most of the NGO ships are GERMAN. “This Sicilian judge said the country w/the most aid agencies operating in the central Mediterranean was Germany, w/5 orgs & 6 vessels (one costing 350,000 euros per month to keep at sea – over 4 million euros per year). ******Italian prosecutor Carmello Zaccaro says he has evidence of phone calls between criminal people smugglers & NGOs, like Save The Children, Pro Activa Open Arms & SOS Mediterranean & Medicins San Frontieres &.Proactiva OPEN ARMS & Sea-Watch.org. GEORGE SOROS’ Open Society-backed foundations like Advanced Medical Frontiers & Moveon.org are also allegedly involved. CNBC – “George Soros to invest $500 million in help for refugees and Migrants” – some of which is going straight to these NGOs. THEY’RE NOT REFUGEES! “A disturbing statistic that has recently come to light reveal that half of the migrants arriving in the country (90,334) never even requested asylum, but DISAPPEARED [upon arrival] INTO THE COUNTRY as UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS. Migrant boats often dock in Sicily to receive food & medical treatment before continuing on to other Italian ports. “Palermo is no longer an Italian town. It is no longer European. You can walk in the city & feel like you’re in Istanbul or Beirut.”

James Stamulis
James Stamulis
6 years ago

These boats are what torpedoes were made for!

Mariaca
Mariaca
6 years ago

Where are sharks when you need them?

Jeremy Steering
Jeremy Steering
6 years ago

The thing is no one disagrees with the principles of immigration and asylum: people have moved around the world for centuries. After the Second World War, millions were on the move after the upheaval of war, millions were made genuine refugees. But they were civilised people from civilised countries moving to be with other civilised people with shared values, ready to integrate, contribute and grateful to the country taking them in and its people for the chance to start a new life. Respectful of its beliefs and traditions, and with no desire or plans to impose their own.

What we have now is very different. There have always been proper legal channels for immigration, a visa and vetting system, and prospective immigrants being required to have certain skills or being able to support themselves financially. Now on the move and heading for Western Europe are millions from the world’s two most backward and violent cultures: Muslim and black African. The two cultures most alien to our own. The vast majority are not escaping war or persecution, but plan to break our laws and enter the continent illegally. Some might hope to work but huge numbers have no intention of working, contributing or integrating, but shamelessly plan to become economic parasites and leech off the peoples of Europe. As millions are already doing.

Worst of all, there is little gratitude, many believe that it is somehow their right to enter and be subsidised by Europe, and that it has a responsibility to rescue them from the self-created chaos they have left behind in their Third World countries. It has to stop or Europe is finished, if it’s not already too late for countries like Britain and Sweden.

Steve
Steve
6 years ago

Its probably funded with kickbacks to the slime secret organizations that probably get their pick of the boys and girls as well as their sick kicks disrupting the world and serving their evil.

CHARLES S
CHARLES S
6 years ago

The Refugee Act of 1980 dictates benefits that refugees must receive. They go to the front of the line for welfare and public housing, jumping ahead of all Americans, including veterans and the disabled. VOLAGs provide:

Housing
Essential furnishings
Food, food allowance
Seasonal clothing
Pocket money
Assistance
in applying for public benefits, Social Security cards, language
translation, employment services, non-employment services, Medicaid
Assistance with health screenings and medical care
Assistance with registering children in school
Transportation to job interviews and job training
Home visits

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