[GameOfFrowns]

>Unlike this article, nobody sings odes to the boldness, inventiveness, motivation, honor and leadership qualities of the African migrant. Maybe they should.

No, they shouldn't. Smuggling migrants into Europe is a business these days. The professional smugglers get paid and can provide transportation at every step of the journey. The most cynical step in this process is creating deliberate distress at sea in order to be picked up by people with "white saviour" mentality who knew in advance in which area the distress would happen and then transport those people from the Libyan coast all the way to Italy or Spain to drop them off there and now make the migrants Europe's problem[1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/far-right-italian-leade...

[Cthulhu_]

Not only that, but stopping migrants is also a business model in itself; Europe is paying billions to stop migrants, see e.g. https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-eu-spent-billions-to-halt-migr...