Eighteen refugees drowned and 14 others were rescued as their boat capsized off Turkey’s Aegean coast, the media reported on Saturday.
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He agreed to a framework that would have granted provisional legalization without insisting on security improvements first. And eventually they’ll succeed. “He strongly supported legalizing people that were in this country illegally”.
It had set off from the Aegean resort of Bodrum in Turkey’s southwest.
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White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he would not second-guess the decisions made in Los Angeles or { New York New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said: “It’s important – very important – not to overreact in situations like this”.
Fishermen hearing the migrants’ screams of migrants alerted the Turkish coast guard, who picked up the bodies from the sea after the wooden boat carrying migrants from Iraq, Pakistan and Syria capsized about 3.5 km off the coast.
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AAP spokesperson Ashutosh lashed out at Jaitley, asking why contracts were given to “front companies of DDCA office-bearers”. In response, Jaitley had said on Thursday, “I left cricket administration in 2013”.
Another 14 people, including Syrians, Iraqis and Pakistanis, are said to have been pulled to safety by the Turkish coastguard.
His call echoed European Union demands for Greece to better manage the migrant influx – a call issued with greater insistency after it emerged that at least two of the militants who carried out a massacre in Paris on November 13 had been registered in Greece as Syrian refugees.
The report also highlighted that only two out of 11 so-called hotspots for the processing of migrants were operational, while only around 200 refugees from Greece and Italy had been relocated to other countries out of 160,000 planned by the EU.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive, on December 15 proposed a controversial plan to transform Frontex into the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, with a doubled budget and more authority, in order to better secure the bloc’s frontiers.
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According to the latest figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), almost one million refugees have reached Europe’s shores so far this year, while more than 3,300 people have either died or gone missing in their perilous journey to the continent.
