So it is my fault/your fault 700 people drowned trying to reach Italy

A BBC reporter Tuesday night said the European Union is at fault for the drowning deaths of 700 people trying to get from Libya to Italy. The reporter did not say why the EU is at fault, but one need not back up opinion with fact these days.

The New York Times calls the new boat people a “relentless flow of people fleeing poverty, persecution and war.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/world/europe/european-union-immigration-migrant-ship-capsizes.html?_r=0

The Times does not say what should be done to keep the boat people safe, only that the EU must do something.

Writing in Taki's Magazine, Paul Wood quotes British columnist Katie Hopkins’ answer to Europe’s drowning immigrant problem:

“It’s time to get Australian. Bring on the gunships, force migrants back to their shores and burn the boats.”

http://takimag.com/article/refuge_from_the_refugees_paul_wood/print#ixzz3Y3ErRiMe

Yeah, that is a cruel thought, isn’t it? Send the people back where they came from and make sure they don’t have a way of trying again.

What do BBC and The Times expect the EU to do, accept all the boat people, give them jobs, and if they have no European skills, pay them for existing?

Well, yes. After all, they are BBC and The New York Times.

Wood also quotes Ed West of The Spectator:

“There are just two policies that would stop people drowning: open borders, with assistance from EU navies, or automatically returning all illegal migrants to their homeland. (For example, no one drowns trying to reach Singapore, because there is no point – you just get sent back.)”

That seems pretty much the same argument as Hopkins’, but without the gunships.

All rich countries face problems with people from poor countries trying to sneak in. The only two possible solutions are the ones by West: Let everyone in, or send everyone back.

And taxpayers must be prepared to pay for one of the two.