CafeBabel: Africans and more rap on wet Mediterranean doors - ( 154 died in June Alone) by Camelia Paraschiv

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Africans and more rap on wet Mediterranean doors(154 died in June Alone)- by Camelia Paraschiv

llegal immigration and the state(s) of southern Europe - a seemingly never-ending waiting-process - for Warsaw-based EU border control agency Frontex to strengthen its network of coastal patrols, for funds, and for bilateral treaties to be established between Europe and African countries
As they wait, key regions - the Canary Islands, the Andalusian coast, Spanish enclaves in Morocco Ceuta and Melilla, and Mediterranean islands Lampedusa (Italy) and Malta – continue to 'welcome' pateras (Spanish for flat-bottomed wooden boats) in their waters. After the first en masse arrival-cum-crisis of illegal immigrants in the Canary Islands in 2002, the problem reached boiling point in 2006, climaxing with a peak in worldwide media interest. All the while, the cost of human lives remains tragically high: 154 African immigrants died on their way to Europe in pateras in June 2007 alone.