Migrant boat disaster: Governments must end drowning as border control
Responding to the reported death of hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean sea, Left Unity’s Felicity Dowling said:
“Left Unity mourns the deaths of the hundreds of migrants who have died this weekend and the many thousands who have drowned over the year.
“We need to call this what it is: the use of drowning as border control. Governments, including the British government, knew that this would happen when they stopped their funding for search-and-rescue operations.
“People are dying in the sea because of the main parties’ toxic politics on immigration.
“The death of each person matters and cries out for justice. The governments of Europe must fund effective rescue operations, and asylum systems.
“We will be working together with campaigns across Europe, Africa and the Middle East to stop any more deaths.”
Felicity Dowling is available for interview. Contact press@leftunity.org
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Left Unity is the new party of the left in Britain. Co-founded by Ken Loach in 2013, it now has around 2,000 members.
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