Deadly Mediterranean Migration Crisis Exposes Europe’s Broken Border Policies

Three young sisters from war-torn Sudan—ages 9, 11, and 17—lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea on a dangerously overcrowded rubber dinghy. Rescuers from the German nonprofit RESQSHIP discovered their bodies amid harrowing conditions north of Libya, shedding light once more on a deadly migration route that has claimed over 30,000 lives since 2014. How Much More Tragedy Will Europe Accept? The victims’ mother and brother survived this treacherous journey, brought to safety on Italy’s island of Lampedusa along with about 65 other rescued migrants from several African countries. The boat departed Zuwara in western Libya—an unstable state...