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Immigration: 500,000 Migrants Mass In Mauritania
Nearly half a million would-be illegal immigrants from central and west Africa have gathered in makeshift camps in Mauritania awaiting their chance of a passage to Europe, the Spanish daily El Pais reported on Tuesday, citing government and international organisation sources.
A half million people isn't immigration, it's an invasion...
Mauritania is one of the main transit countries from which criminal people smuggling gangs set sail on the longer, more dangerous but less patrolled route across the Mediterranean, via the Canary Islands, where 99 illegal immigrants landed on Tenerife on Tuesday. The Spanish coastguard identified another vessel with 40 people on board off the Canary Islands. The authorities on the Cape Verde Islands off the north African coast were meanwhile searching for a boat with 10 corpses on board, after a Turkish cargo vessel raised the alarm.

Mauritania has announced it will take "immediate" action to fight illegal immigration, including stepping up patrols along its borders and the construction of reception centres. Most of Mauritania - a sparsely populated country with just 3.2 million inhabitants - is desert, and its 2,400 kilometre long border is extremely difficult to patrol. A total 2,400 Africans have landed on the Canary Islands this year. Mauritania's Red Crescent Society estimates that at least 1,000 migrants have drowned in the past four months alone on doomed sea journeys to Europe.
Posted by: Fred 2006-03-15
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