Choosing between 'bad and worse': a migrant's dilemma after Channel tragedy

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For the past month, Mahdi, 31, has been holed up in a makeshift camp in northern France, waiting for his place in a dinghy run by people smugglers to reach Britain. The drowning of 27 migrants like him in the Channel has not curbed his resolve.

Mahdi said he was forced to flee Iran because he felt his political activism for a Kurdish party had placed his life in danger. Wednesday's tragedy was sobering, he said, but changed nothing.

France says it is the determination of migrants to make the perilous crossing across one of the world's busiest shipping lanes that underscores the need for deeper European cooperation to prevent them reaching the Channel in the first instance. Calm sea conditions prompted a surge in dinghy launches this month because the people traffickers and migrants know the window of opportunity will soon close for much of the winter.

 

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You wonder why they want to come here, their living standards dont look any better than most of the Democrat governed cities, case in point San Francisco

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