Pope Francis says policymakers should address the issues of migrants
The death of migrants in the Mediterranean region is “unacceptable and almost always avoidable”, Pope Francis said on Friday, repeating the call for policymakers to the region to solve the problem in a “win-win” way.
The 85-year-old Pontiff who is the son of Italian immigrants to the European country Argentina often defends the rights of migrants and has repeatedly criticized how the Mediterranean has become a “massive graveyard”.
“The failure to find a common solution [on migration] is in progress to lead to an unacceptable and almost constant loss of life, especially in the Mediterranean,” Francis said in his Rome Med 2022 message. , foreign policy conference.
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Insisting that migration to Europe “cannot be stopped”, he urged all those involved to find a solution that could be beneficial to all, ensuring human dignity and progress go hand in hand.
Migration has been a political hot potato in Europe for years, with governments planning increasingly tough measures to stem the flow of migrants and asylum seekers from the North and Middle East. Africa. – East.
In Italy, one of the first actions of the right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was the refusal to accept the migrant rescue boat that forced it to go to France and provoked riots in Paris.
According to data received from the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, about 136,500 migrants have reached Europe from the Mediterranean Sea this year, and more than 1,800 have died or are missing.
