Not To Be Serviced

It has been estimated that over three thousand migrants have died or are missing while in and around the Mediterranean in 2015 trying to make it to Greece or heading toward Italy. In Athens authorities have detained five rescuers working for NGO’s (non-governmental organization) on suspicion of people smuggling, the overriding charge is ‘attempting to facilitate the entry of illegal migrants’. These not for profit organizations crime is to aid those from drowning at sea and comforting migrants on land, it seems to me Greece thinks that by not extending aid to the migrants they will not try to land in Greece and go elsewhere, if a few die so be it they have been warned, the warning being stay away, no comfort here, no more room at the inn. Greece is not the first nation overwhelmed by migrants, emigrants, alien displaced persons fleeing death and hardships in their home country. Greece is doing its best to defer out-migration into their country but one would hope for a more humanitarian effort if not for the migrants at the very least for those that are trying against all odds to service them.