Pressured by the hard-right, the E.U. now finances brutal, secret prisons in Libya to keep migrants out of Europe

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The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe

Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.

THE NEW YORKER https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021 ... -of-europe

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Horrifying.

And yet EU companies can't find enough workers, just like us.

Was it Alabama or Georgia that passed stringent anti-immigration laws a couple of years ago that resulted in all the farm workers leaving the state?

Most of the crops rotted in the fields, in spite of, shall we say, misguided attempts to use convict laborers.

Yes, the laws had to be repealed, of course. Cost farmers many millions, didn't it?

And now Polish truck drivers are refusing to go to England because of the hostile attitude of their population, leaving 100,000 jobs unfilled. They're all going to Germany & France instead.

Some people are nuts.