Forcing their Way into Europe's Fortress

OhmyNews International:

"Forcing their Way into Europe's Fortress
European countries divided over policy against illegal immigration

Escaping African poverty and setting foot in the European Promised Land: over the past few years, this obsession has expanded into the minds of so many African people that the Spanish interior minister refers to this year's wave of illegal African immigrants as "a peaceful revolution against African poverty."

Since January 2006, more than 23,000 illegal African immigrants have landed in the Spanish Canary Island, after a hazardous journey that started somewhere in the Senegalese coast. Others are taking their chances off Libyan coasts, to the Italian island of Lampudesa, south of Sicily."