Libya's Descent Into Immigration Chaos (2014)

The Migrant Trap (2014): For African migrants Libya used to be a Mecca: a place to find work or get access to Europe. But now the workers who come here are trapped in the political, economic and social chaos engulfing the country.
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"It will get worse because of the indifference and carelessness of the Libyan authorities, but also the lack of coordination with Europe", militia leader and immigration officer Abdul Raza tells us. He describes how no efforts are made on the Libyan side to stop the 15,000 migrants a year who attempt the crossing to Europe, which in 2013 resulted in 3,000 deaths. Tripoli has always been a centre for migrants and talk of reconstruction has brought a new wave. But these rumours are in stark contrast to the complete mayhem engulfing the country. "We have big problems. This morning we haven't eaten. Sometimes they hit us. When we are noisy they beat us", a young migrant being kept in Libya's notorious Abu Salim prison tells us. He has been brought here along with hundreds of others and will be kept here for an indefinite amount of time waiting to be deported. "It is for them the most important thing to go to Europe, Lampedusa. They would rather die than stay here in Libya", says a Roman Catholic Nun attempting to offer aid to the increasingly desperate immigrants swelling Libya's cities.
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[@jezlanejl]

One of the worst points of human nature is thinking the Grass is Greener... There's people in the uk that pay Millions of Pounds to be left alone with a few cattle on a farm, All they want is to get out of the rat race. Yet African people see big houses and big cars and imagine everyone must be sooo happy.

[@shahee6579]

Indeed . Far from it

[@nomerompanlaspelotas5812]

yes sure, but another point of human nature is the failure to understand the conditions these people live in, which is your case; if you live in some of these african countries, when you and your family are facing starvation, specially when there are small children, then you will risk anything to feed them, this has nothing to do with "grass being greener", it's a life and death situation, you just don't get it.

[@jezlanejl]

@@nomerompanlaspelotas5812 , Rubbish, tribes have survived for thousands of years and are proud of there heritage, the San people still run after there pray and the Massai still jump. The reason poverty is rife is simply because of African greed and corruption and as an Englishman we have had a past exactly the same, but we changed it, not by running away but fighting for what is right....

[@nomerompanlaspelotas5812]

@@jezlanejl that has nothing to do with my comment, you stated a point of human nature is thinking the grass is greener, that applies for somebody that moves from, say, France to England or to Italy, but for people in africa almost anywhere outside of Africa is better, and while you touch upon this, you guys complain about invasion when you spent thousands of years not fighting for what is right but by invading and looting other countries, so enjoy it, it takes a little bit of time to get used to them, it was like this in the beginning for France and Italy now french and italian women fuck africans like they are going out of fashion, as soon as they see those 12 inches you can kiss goodbye to the english culture and they are gonna keep coming as climate change makes africa inhabitable.

[@kelechi_77]

@@jezlanejlafricans have fought for so long, just look at all the civil wars from the last 40 years, african corruption is way too vast for any individual to fight against

[@aaronmichaels3031]

I feel angry at politicians, governors and all ruling powers of africa, they are accountable for so much evil and wrong of its people!!!

[@胖卡比-j6k]

There are too many warlords in africa. Not as easy as you think.

[@landlord5552]

travel 1000$ here 1600$ there 4000$ over medditeranea sea...per person. Where from coming such money??? I live in Finland, eaven here those summs of money are significant.

[@RisingStarOfKorea]

Even here in Korea, laying aside 4000 euro in the piggybank takes at least 4 years

[@starsbarsnigga]

@@RisingStarOfKorea yah broke

[@NurseSnow2U]

@@starsbarsniggaand you’re an oaf with no grammatical skills. 🙄😒

[@NurseSnow2U]

@@starsbarsniggaand you’re willfully ignorant. Wanna take a guess at which is more valuable overall?

[@dianecleary1054]

Often their extended family lend them thé money .

[@davidhinds9816]

It's enough to make a grown man cry.

[@caesarsalad1170]

You maybe, lmao 🤡

[@mosesmakumbi2428]

This is just the beginning. Even if 20 million Nigerians left Nigeria, heading to Europe and they all died in the Mediterranean Sea there would still be a surplus of people ready to migarate. Poverty stricken people have nothing to loose.

[@steviealessi5412]

Thats true but poverty is not a reason to illegally gate crash another nation. Thank God for Libya and Morocco for being firm with them. This will end ugly in a few years or even a decades time when sophisticated European powers will have to use the military to protect their borders. Shame if we have to shoot them like they had to do on the Texan border to illegals but they dont seem to get the point that invading anothers nation is not right. They are NOT refugees.

[@aarongorham2666]

Muammar Gaddafi was a great leader.. What happened to him was an absolute tragedy... What a world we live in.. The best of humanity is gruesomely butchered while the most sick and evil twisted disgusting low lives reign in secrecy.. God help us all.

[@beautifulnature7783]

This is very heart breaking! Lybia is hell place no human rights at all. Better stay in your own country my brothers and sisters. God have mercy 🙏

[@abdulbarigashout7664]

Libya used to be paradise for all Africans and whom from elsewhere but in future no more and it will be isolated from all African countries.

[@steviealessi5412]

God bless Libya for being firm with them and therefore possibly reducing the chance of some of the thousands illegally trying to enter Europe from doing it .

[@StreetDrilla]

BRUH the nigerian guy tests positive for the list, Hepatitis, AIDS, no residency card, literally checked all the boxes to get kicked out in 2 seconds.

[@thornbird6768]

Even Libya doesn’t want them !!!

[@chadsimmons6347]

well well well...the slave trade is going on in Africa no matter who's in charge..always has...always will

[@lemonslice2233]

I heard it hasn't been a thing in Libya for 42 years though, but haven't found information as to why.

[@omarabdi9452]

The wones who get deported are lucky. Sold more like

[@r0ckstar666]

@@lemonslice2233 you heard wrong

[@steviealessi5412]

These people are not slaves. They as usual use that word for effect. They are economic migrants intent on illegally entering another nation and god bless Libya for being firm with them.

[@apotebill]

I am from Togo and I miss Kadhafi. Sad story for Libya 🇱🇾

[@r0ckstar666]

the libyans do not miss him. they killed his b1tch azz

[@Laila-hl8dc]

@@r0ckstar666 NATO and Obama killed him lmao

[@r0ckstar666]

@@Laila-hl8dc he was killed by the National Transitional Council and sodomized with a bayonet.

[@isabelleisabelle7182]

And they burried him on an unmarked grave

[@furkankara9658]

@@r0ckstar666 you don't know anything ignorant coward

[@patsyblack7617]

The darker ones are beaten and treated worse than others. God will bring mercy to the oppressed.

[@kevintravis5123]

thats a contradicory statement... if god was involved then why are they beaten and worse killed ???

[@JohnJohn-xs5ru]

​@@kevintravis5123 ,??

[@tinasweeting6391]

Well! Well! They wanted Gadaffi dead! Now look what happen! Lybia is now a mess!

[@badasslifestylee]

The rebels were paid by Europe. Real Lybians didn't do this

[@thetruthonelove8884]

Is so funny that they saying that they ban people from libiya for 5yrs while there is no government hahahahah

[@crocodilemasala7956]

Stay in your country and you will avoid this mess.

[@beverleylumb8048]

Gaddafi might have used migrants but he has gone and anyway the migrants he used were not illegal they were arranged before they came into libia there's a difference to just turning up when you want illegally

[@gbemisolasarah4990]

Nigeria pls u people sld stop dis art fine dey don't what us in there country but d risk is too much ,😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@staycyy2341]

Haha what

[@karenstokes2957]

I feel very sorry for these people I wish I could help all of them some way some how

[@steviealessi5412]

Wake up. They are illegal chancers who should have stayed at home. God bless Libya and Morocco for being firm with them.

[@robertmonkhouse7908]

Wow...total respect. ..this is how immigration checks should be done....take note our so called western leaders..

[@paulap2377]

Robert monkhouse I totally agree with your comment. The Government need to grow some.

[@paulap2377]

Gaddfi was far from a leader but he did keep it under control getting rid of him the country is now worse off

[@beverleylumb8048]

I know the treatment is not good but the migrants have the cheek to enter another country illegally where they have no idea what its like taking away from the locals who have little already and then they have the cheek to complain about how they are treated and the food not being up to the kind they are used to or would expect to have. This is a foreign country they eat different things to where you come from but even though you are illegal you expect that they will change and look after you differently than they are doing how you expect. That is the same we hear in Europe when according to them they are not being given enough or given living accommodation like they expected in Europe.

[@andsowhat100]

They don't care...

[@StreetDrilla]

but they come from countries that face neocolonialism by france? Any attempt at these countries (burkina faso) to improve themselves results in france coming to kill them to maintain their economic power over its african colonies (thomas sankara, 1987)

[@paulap2377]

Precisely!

[@jazzforfun69]

This guy is spot on. This is the way Europeans should look after their country

[@thetruthonelove8884]

When God do something to a person or a country he knows why he did it he never mistakes, when God bring war on libiya he knows why he did it RECIST # LIBYA N'S. GOD Knows Why He Did African As The Poorest continent In The World #AFRICA 4 LIFE

[@tigerking6908]

Pls build a camp where refugees are check make them work their living send back the people from peace Nations like south Africa.

[@kmcl11]

I support the checking of migrants but sad what the eritrians go thru. They have no gov't. Wonder what all the thumbs down is about.

[@StreetDrilla]

Libya seemingly shared the situation of the modern gulf states in the migrant lure non payment (slave) type incidents.

[@steviealessi5412]

They work in Libya, get paid and pay the vicious gangs to get to Europe . It needs to stop even if we have to shoot some on our beaches as a deterrant . It cannot go on.

[@jcalhoun7501]

Thank God for the Mediterranean Sea.

[@kwamesedric2483]

J Calhoun j

[@hassanmonnan7526]

J Calhoun it was your dirty country that caused this, we loved gaddafi, fuck the West, enjoy isil in ur country, if we do u will too

[@shershah9660]

Football Subculture Not to mention how Americans complain about Mexican illegal immigrants and talk about building walls but it was their own country with it's war on drugs that destroyed Mexico and made it the lawless land that it is today. They deserve everything that they're getting and should be getting more.

[@AnnieLouie]

Sher Shah Always blaming the americans for everything that goes wrong. But the ones who hate the USA the most usually take the most hand outs in AID

[@AnnieLouie]

J Calhoun they need more Birtb Control in tbose areas. Slow down the population. it needs to be cut in half almost. These dieased amd violent ppl will only let you down once tbey gwt what they want

[@WindowsAndGhosts]

Most of the comment section can barely write a coherent sentence. Lol.

[@ntuthukontukza5943]

I hope Obama is happening this terrible disaster

[@cameog8441]

Or spell 🤷🏾‍♀️🤣😂

[@searchandupgrade4968]

... and now what happens, they would not be better without ?

[@mpcreative5040]

22:58 "you had no engineer to help you" my question is, where would you find an "engineer" in the middle of the ocean 🤔.

[@LINGYang]

There should do this usa be very hard on pple are no paper and also fake visa

[@petestreet7535]

The host countries are always under the spotlight but never the countries of origin.

[@kadianmillner5762]

2024

[@davidhinds9816]

With a world full of hate the end will soon come.

[@beverleylumb8048]

Libea has enough problems of its own without having to take care of illegal migrants as well. The cost to the country is something they can not afford

[@steviealessi5412]

You are right and Europe has had more than enough of them too. This has to stop and will end ugly. God bless Libya for being firm with them ,Europe should do the same. It will regret it if it does not.

[@beverleylumb8048]

Hang on he was let go from detention because he was going to go home so how is he still in libia. They say there is no law in lybia for foreigners but there is it says illegal migrants are just that illegal. Just because they don't like the law is not the same as not having one

[@tonnyanthonys2159]

It's insane to flee ivory cost for Libya,

[@StreetDrilla]

ivory coast is a french puppet state.

[@kitaraarat6529]

Abde is being nice for the camera

[@setumomahakoe7791]

Putin _who gave Nato /UN to attack Libya but no answer... Why??? and what multi national company are now taking over OIL resource???

[@andyperez2742]

When are you all going to understand that no matter where you are from, rich or poor, colored, from Europe or USA: we are all Foreigners. Shipping people from one side of the room to the other, or locking people out of a house is NOT going to help the situation. All we are doing is making it worse. I do respect the idea that they check for diseases ASAP. Do not forget that we are all Human beings. We are all breathing the same Oxygen. Get off your High Horse and see that we are all in this together.

[@georgemifsud1425]

YOU SEE THES RUNERS FERST THEY CAME CRYING THEN THEY WELL KILL

[@michellehill1604]

God help and forgive us all

[@МуаззамСафарова-х2з]

😃😄😁☝️🤲Аллах велик накажет этих народу они предатели .....М Каддафи нету больше 😭☝️🤲

[@jayk9777]

Who would not these men in their country? Ukraine didn't

[@Cjsoc]

Update?

[@ghostdiaries369]

Obama, Clinton 😂 where are you now? Fix the country. 🇫🇷🇬🇧 You too! Fix the country you " liars "

[@AboubakrySoumare-ch9xi]

Merci beaucoup des très bonnes accueillie je que us fais des l'année 2013

[@lamincamara3834]

Libya is not easy for blacks

[@nikiarwonsutnga9766]

nice job coast quard

[@williamkarwell9043]

Patrick, please go back to Côte D'Ivoire. Your country is a nice one

[@steviealessi5412]

They wont as they have been sold a dream and are after something for nothing. Europe has had enough of this and it will end ugly. God bless Libya for being firm with them, They need to go home . They are now hated and disrespected in Europe for illegally washing up on it shores and lying to its people.

[@nathanhawey294]

I'm living in the UK now that happened to me many times. then they take your money and everything.

[@sarahbeighton5492]

Go home

[@georgemifsud1425]

BLACK THEY THEING EF DAY GO TO NOTHER COUNTY BEVERE THEING FOR THEM IS FREE NO WAY

[@steviealessi5412]

If I could understand what you are saying I think i may agree with you!

[@dera3633]

26:08 my friend stop the talking and go back to you country, enough is enough.

[@mohamedawad4178]

الشئ المؤسف انكم الشعب الليبي في قمة الجهل لم تتعلموا شيء طيلة فترة حكم القذافى حتى الان تتحاربون فيما بينكم من أجل ماذا من أجل الدمار فقط و هذا الشخص الذي يتحدث و قلبه على ليبيا الم يكن أحد أفراد مليشات القذافى و مع الاسف هو فى قمة الجهل و يحاول أن يتحدث اللغة العربية الفصحة على ما أعتقد هو يستغل المهاجرين من أجل كسب المال الله لن ينسى هؤلاء الناس المغلبون على امرهم

[@D3F3KTSYST3M]

libya was africa´s paradise - "they" turned it to hell, but somehow you (we) let them do so :(

[@r0ckstar666]

A lot of libyans would disagree with you. especially the Libyans who killed gaddafi.

[@charlesayine4117]

Looking at that police man cover his mouth because of those immigrants, meanwhile you people's you don't even bath not to talk about brashing your teeth

[@skylanderdadandskylanderbo8327]

this is the first tme i wish their were 1000s of sharks in the med.

[@steviealessi5412]

Europe sadly will end up on a war footing with them and will end up having to do what they did in Texas ie shoot some of them as a deterrant. They will then have caused the awful outcome themselves and will have made the Europeans act like African dictator scum just in order to protect its own borders.

[@crownheights6036]

This is my home

[@addaabderrahmane3231]

Bravo libiaaa

[@crownheights6036]

Slavery is a scam I'm Carthage so I'm Libya

[@JohnJohn-xs5ru]

They receive money to do so

[@ridwanrabiukano6973]

This man like mbappe

[@7ioadee]

The country needs Trump for president. Im sure he would straighten things out real quick. 🤷‍♀️

[@emptyhad2571]

No.

[@emptyhad2571]

USA already turned the country into shit.

[@qasimmuhammad9023]

this trafficking i hope they also have epers to enter haeven

[@georgestinneyjr.4181]

if yall drop some hot plastic on me! my Allah bless you. asa Lama lakem

[@johndavis1465]

Very good deport 72hrs

[@BRDYBRDY-bi1xd]

wooow how racist and ruthless can the arab speaking north africans become he called it the plauge omg. These poor people were running away from violence and suffering and they fell into the hands of even more violent and corrupt individuals really its a sad world to live in especially if your in Africa and your skin color happens to be black.

[@damfst23]

Zak Jansen People are trying to get jobs so they can send money to their families to survive.You,re worried that a white woman will experience the joys of BBC. P.S.......im not talking about the British Broadcasting Company lol

[@damfst23]

Insecure assed White boy who cant even get a sniff of p***y,lol

[@damfst23]

May your mother experience BBC ......tonight!

[@darwine7343]

Is this part of the picture hep c, tb., aids yea loving it

[@kaijithe1534]

this is so stupid libyan are not more racist than any other country but those illegal migrant are criminal just by being illegal migrant and might be working with terrorist groups and local gangs and miltia and they must deported libya has many problems to solve for its people and those must their country solve their problems not libya

[@ellismeah5127]

It just shows that with billions of people on the planet ,there's simply to many

[@lemansuparman2187]

THIS AFRICA AR FULL

[@mudasirsaafi588]

rabbin isin haa fixuu libyaa

[@carriesmith7165]

What a flippin hell hole!!! You cannot blame migrants for wanting a better life, if it was you and your family, wouldn't you take the chance?

[@swedensy]

Too much reading!!! When will we invent audio translation?

[@lemonslice2233]

Ummmm, we have? Since forever? But having subtitles instead of voice actors dubbing over the person speaking enables you to better understand the speaker's emotions, which the dubbing actor can never fully convey.

[@hakumeng316]

God forbid you have to read

[@wassambezdy2103]

they should didnt come to libya from first buz they know our country and they still try to across see to go to eur, is not our responsibility anyone come to here ,sorry about what happened but this the life they following .

[@anacinplanas6249]

I'm lucky to be a pilipino

[@harunasalifu5877]

😢😥😢😢😭🇳🇪

[@georgestinneyjr.4181]

man I cant believe this. I thought Libya was a black country.

[@mosesmakumbi2428]

You need to get yourself more education. That's elementary school geography.

[@georgestinneyjr.4181]

+mozey Moze's what do you need to do? I was being sarcastic. jack ass!

[@henryoosterwyk1569]

germany n frace r 2

[@ellataylor6060]

scariy111111111111111111111111111111111111111

[@DavidThao-c3q]

There's legal immigration process. Don't burden country. If you have $10,000 to pay smugglers use the money to start a business in your own country

[@ryanmbira3968]

evil Qaddafi cat at 6:47

[@dallasdouglas1273]

The mercy of God might will not locate this L

[@tahirlateef5506]

ALLAH is one

[@charlesayine4117]

.

[@tahirlateef5506]

pasnelty this islaam

[@DavidThao-c3q]

Don't complain when you are the problem