Illegal migrants risk their lives to better themselves. Europeans are more aware of Africans drowning in the Mediterranean in the summer holiday season, but boats are wrecked all year round. In mid-December 51 migrants drowned off the Greek island of Samos, one of the worst such incidents in recent memory. Mexicans dying in Arizona's desert rarely make headlines any more. And not a lot is heard about the 600,000 people a year, perhaps more, who the un says are trafficked and often forced into prostitution. Bonded labour, too, is dismally common.
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