Southern's latest documentary, 'Borderless,' features a rare interview with a human trafficker who helps ferry migrants from Morocco to Spain. The man explained that each client pays between €2,000 ($2,248) and €4,000 ($4,495) for the trip - a business model which Southern described as incredibly lucrative.
"Imagine how much money you're making. It's €130,000 per boat. Ten boats in a day? You're making $1.3 million. Why is no one talking about this massive criminal syndicate?"The filmmaker revealed to RT that she was told "multiple times" by people on the ground that smugglers bribe members of the Moroccan Coast Guard in order to ensure that certain waterways remain unpatrolled. The sophisticated smuggling operation clashes with what is often portrayed as a purely humanitarian crisis, Southern argued.
"This is quite an intelligent business. This isn't just a few people fleeing their country, desperately getting on dinghies trying to get to Spain. This is a very structured business."While Southern casts doubt over whether most African migrants could be considered legitimate asylum seekers, she said that in some respects, they are still victims. Those who attempt the perilous journey to Spain are often fed false promises of European citizenship and a good job by opportunistic smugglers, she noted. To make matters worse, the smugglers encourage their clients to destroy their passports before arriving in Spain - making them essentially non-persons in the eyes of the EU, thus making proper integration virtually impossible.
"They are not looking to help people," Southern said of the smugglers. She added that she doesn't foresee the traffickers slowing down any time soon. In 2018 alone, nearly 60,000 migrants crossed into Spain by sea - a record year.
Southern, a Canadian-born filmmaker and journalist, has generated considerable controversy with her work and activism. Often labeled as far-right, her critics have accused her of Islamophobic fearmongering. She was barred from entering the UK last year after handing out flyers that read "Allah is gay" in a British town. The stunt resulted in a lifetime ban from entering the country, Southern has claimed.
She's had similar trouble while touring other parts of the world. An event she planned to host in New Zealand last August was canceled after the venue said it wasn't "comfortable" with her message. The activist has also been lampooned for several notable gaffes. During a trip to Australia, Southern claimed on camera that a Sydney suburb she was visiting had been completely stripped of its British culture - prompting her interviewer to point out an Irish pub across the road.
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Excerpt from the following article: "Soros’ Open Society Foundations, which also has been reported to receive money from the US Government through the CIA-linked USAID, also funds something it calls the International Migration Initiative, an NGO Soros’ Open Society Foundations set up in 2010...... The plan was drawn up by a think tank with offices in Berlin, Brussels and Istanbul by the name The European Stability Initiative (ESI).... The allegations of Soros NGO financing of a fleet of boats to illegally smuggle refugees or other migrants from North Africa into the EU suggested at the very least that the Washington-tied Soros networks were doing more than charity. It suggested that his NGOs were at least indirectly complicit in projects that were destroying the social stability of the EU much as Soros’ NGOs did in Ukraine in 2014 and before." [Link]
Then ALSO this article on SOTT:
Flashback Best of the Web: Soros leak shows his foundation viewed refugee crisis as opportunity to be exploited
Comment: This is probably as close as we'll get to proof of what everyone (should) already knows: Soros and fellow Western billionaires are working the crises they created (whether accidentally or...Does that answer your question?
EXCERPT (which may inspire you to read the whole thing) ---
"ASGI’s task is to disseminate ideas on immigration laws among lawyers, jurists and academics; it has contributed to the creation of national and EU laws on immigration, asylum and citizenship, promoting political dialogue and protection of foreigners. ASGI was founded by the Open Society Foundation and is directly funded by it."
"Cospe Onlus is a non-profit, private organization founded in 1983. It operates in 30 countries with 150 projects “to favour equal and sustainable development, respect of human rights, peace and justice for people’’, supporting the right to international mobility. Its goal is a world where “diversity is considered a value, a world with many voices, where the meeting of different people results in mutual enrichment and where social justice goes through equal rights and opportunities’’....
"Created in 2014, CILD is a network of organizations to promote rights and freedoms for everyone, with advocacy campaigns, public and legal actions. CILD supports easier access for migrants in face of “mixed influxes’’. After a recent change in the law to welcome unaccompanied minors in Italy, it pushed for a change in citizenship laws, currently materialized in the attempt to switch from Ius Sanguinis to Ius Soli. Its manifesto includes a change of vision on immigration, as a system of asylum, not criminal, based on welcoming duties and enlargement of citizenship. CILD activities include,the project Open Migration, which focuses on a fact-checking of news on immigration; its articles cover criticism of the investigation of NGOs in the Mediterranean,a claim that refugee appeals are not overburdening the judicial system,and another claim that immigrants are over-representated in the jail system due to preventive custody,ignoring the data showing that migrants commit crimes in Italy at 6 times the rate of natives."
You may well ask: Where do ALL of them get their money? --- Read the article.