In the last three years, Europe has erected border fences, closed ports, and paid Libya to warehouse migrants. While stemming migration to Europe, these policies have had dark consequences for migrants. Africans fleeing war and poverty are taking escape routes that subject them to kidnapping, sexual abuse, squalor, and raging civil wars. They cross war-torn Yemen on foot to get to Saudi Arabia and are herded into camps in Libya, where more than 50 died in a recent airstrike. In Libya, migrants have become “a money factory” for the Libyan Coast Guard, aid workers, and criminal gangs. The U.S. has followed Europe's lead, outsourcing asylum-seekers to Latin America, where along the US-Mexico border migrants are living in limbo, unable to go home or to move forward.
Making Misery Pay: Libya Militias Take EU Funds for Migrants
An Associated Press investigation found that the misery of migrants in Libya has spawned a thriving and highly lucrative web of businesses funded in part by the EU and enabled by the United Nations.
European Money Spawns more Misery for Migrants in Libya
The misery of migrants in Libya has spawned a thriving and highly lucrative business, in part funded by the EU and enabled by the United Nations, an Associated Press investigation has found.
Denied Asylum, Migrants Return to Place They Fear Most: Home
Honduran migrants are being denied asylum to the United States and face increasingly violent gangs in their home country.
Tuberculosis, Armed Guards, Lack of Food at UN Migrant Center in Libya
The facility is jam-packed with nearly 1,200 migrants, including hundreds who fled from abuse at other detention centers in hopes of sanctuary.
Associated Press Wins Overseas Press Club of America Award for Pulitzer Center Project
The Pulitzer Center-supported series on migration received the Hal Boyle Award in the 2020 OPC Awards.