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Amnesty: European Plan on Migration “Woefully Inadequate”

HeadlineApr 24, 2015

European leaders have vowed to triple spending on border protection as part of a plan to address a migrant crisis, after up to 900 people died when their ship capsized in the Mediterranean. Amnesty International called the plan “woefully inadequate and shameful,” noting the border program “patrol[s] within 30 miles of Italian and Maltese coasts, far from where most deaths occur.”

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