{"id":29011,"date":"2015-08-08T22:29:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T20:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=29011"},"modified":"2015-08-09T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T14:07:26","slug":"29011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/29011\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around 50,000 people arrived in Greece in July. \u00a0Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the problem “surpasses” Greece’s abilities, and that his country’s economic problems meant it was facing a humanitarian “crisis within a crisis”.<\/p>\n

Save the Children says refugee children are at risk of exploitation and disease in Greece because of the lack of facilities. \u00a0“The risk to a child forced to sleep on the street of being abused, or of a baby dying of heatstroke, is very real,” said Kitty Arie from the charity. \u00a0“This is Europe in 2015. We can’t leave these children in this desperate situation.”<\/p>\n

European Director of a UN organization said facilities for the refugees on the Greek islands were “totally inadequate”, after more migrants arrived in Greece in July 2015 than in the whole of the previous year.<\/p>\n

Greece’s EU partners must do more to ease the burden, he said, but Greece must “lead and co-ordinate.\u00a0On most of the islands there is no reception capacity, people are not sleeping under any form of roof. So it’s total chaos on the islands.\u00a0After a couple of days they are transferred to Athens, there is nothing waiting for them in Athens,” he complained.<\/p>\n

Separately, Italian police arrested five suspected traffickers over the deaths of about 200 people after a migrant boat sank on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

They included two Libyans, two Algerians and a Tunisian, held on suspicion of multiple murder and people trafficking.<\/p>\n

Survivors have said that traffickers used knives to slash the heads of African migrants and belts to thrash Arabs to keep them in the hull.<\/p>\n