Where are you going to seek asylum?
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Be
aware that illegal journey to your asylum country carry risks,
including death.
It does not make sense to escape from a danger
at home but to die on the way to a potential country of asylum.
However, several hundreds if not thousands of people die each
year while trying to reach Europe, North America, or Australia.
Travel to Europe, for example, is risky on the sea between
Morocco and Spain or Libya and Italy, at the mined boarder
between Turkey and Greece, in the rivers in Eastern Europe,
and in lorries(trucks) without air in which people are trafficked.
Based on recent press articles and reports of refugee help
organisations, we assume the death rate per year to be higher
than 500 for Europe. Quite similar figures are reported from
the electric fence between Mexico and the Unites States of
America or from those trying to reach America or Australia
by boat.
The international press reports also extensively on cases of betrayal (you
pay for a service, but you do not get it), usury (you pay too
much for a service or goods), and armed physical attacks against
illegal migrants on the land and sea way. As you cannot recur to the
police, you are the ideal victim. Especially horrible stories are heard
about illegal migrants in Morocco. Many African illegal migrants, some
of them refugees, live there under horrible conditions because they cannot
afford the $2,000 (or €) needed to get - mostly with bound hands!
- access to the unsafe throw-away barks going to the continental Europe
or the Canaries.
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