How many migrants do you think the Italian coastguard retrieved from the sea this weekend? 50? 100? 500? How about 5000, 30 of whom were dead?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28082969
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The Italian navy has found about 30 bodies in a fishing boat carrying hundreds of migrants between Sicily and the North African coast.
The migrants who died appeared to have been asphyxiated.
The discovery was made when rescuers boarded the vessel to evacuate a number of people said to be in distress, two of them pregnant women.
The navy says that over the weekend it rescued more than 5,000 migrants trying to cross from North Africa.
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Italy cannot cope on its own. Its asylum system is already under strain. Europe has seen tens of thousands arrive this year, and - as word spreads that the Italian navy is actively rescuing people at sea - more will presumably be tempted to come.
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Can anything realistically be done about this or do we just have to accept that there's going to be an unstoppable and increasing flow of migrants who'll do virtually anything to get into Europe?