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  • 2019-05-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Migrants 'Invade' a Beach in Broad Daylight? (en)
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  • On 22 April 2019, the political clickbait site StarPolitical.com posted a story headlined, Migrants INVADE Beach in Broad Daylight; Men Women and Children Left SHOCKED. The story reports that ABC news recently posted a video from Spain capturing dozens of; what look like all or mostly male migrants coming ashore on a quiet beach day, on one of the countries most beautiful beaches. The story is a sensational and misleading take on a real incident that happened in 2017. And while it references U.S. politics and the upcoming 2020 presidential election, it took place in Spain. As The New York Times reported at the time, migrants were seen in the video running onto a beach in southern Spain from an inflatable dinghy after a dangerous journey across the Mediterranean Sea. Surprised beachgoers can be seen walking toward the group that had just disembarked: Immigration continues to be a political flashpoint globally, however the number of migrants entering Europe has dropped significantly since peaking in 2015. On 26 April 2019, the Associated Press reported that migration to Spain has plummeted after an agreement between the government of that country and Morocco, although tactics used to halt prospective migrants have raised red flags with human-rights organizations. In 2017, the year the beach incident depicted by the video occurred, 185,139 migrants arrived in Europe while 3,139 either went missing or lost their lives attempting to do so. In 2015, more than a million migrants made their way to Europe, but as of 2018, the United Nations estimated the figure to be 141,472 — the lowest since the start of the crisis in 2014. (en)
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