Immigrants now travel 'first-class'

[Sally]

When you have the money, you can have a very comfortable journey and not be crammed into a vessel. You just have to hope that you don't get caught.


Immigrants now travel 'first-class'

©The Daily Telegraph | 23 April, 2015 00:11

The refugees, believed to be relatively wealthy middle-class professionals, even took "selfies" of each other on board the 25m-long boat. File photo
Image by: ALESSANDRO BIANCHI / REUTERS

While poverty-stricken Africans and Asians are packed like slaves into leaky fishing boats crossing the Mediterranean from Libya, a new type of "first-class" refugee is emerging - wealthy Syrians paying thousands of euros to be taken to Europe in yachts and motor launches.
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Italian police this week impounded a private yacht in the port of Pozzallo, Sicily, after it brought 98 Syrians and Palestinians from Turkey, with each adult refugee paying €8500 (over R110000) to smugglers.

There was a discount for the 23 children on board.

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[TheOldSchool]

Sooo... what's the type of reaction you're hoping/expecting for this?

 

[Sally]

Sooo... what's the type of reaction you're hoping/expecting for this?

I want you to reimburse them for the money they spent since they were caught.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Sooo... what's the type of reaction you're hoping/expecting for this?

I want you to reimburse them for the money they spent since they were caught.

Why? If you gamble shouldn't you be prepared to lose?

 

[Sally]

Sooo... what's the type of reaction you're hoping/expecting for this?

I want you to reimburse them for the money they spent since they were caught.

Why? If you gamble shouldn't you be prepared to lose?

I heard you were Mr. Moneybags who would gladly give them the money back that they lost by being stopped.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Sooo... what's the type of reaction you're hoping/expecting for this?

I want you to reimburse them for the money they spent since they were caught.

Why? If you gamble shouldn't you be prepared to lose?

I heard you were Mr. Moneybags who would gladly give them the money back that they lost by being stopped.

Sorry I need to stop you here. I sincerely don't know what message you're trying to deliver in this thread. Could you clarify? I'm not sure who you think are, if at all, the good or bad guys.