European Union and Katie Hopkins

migrants: These developments come amid several countries arguing that search-and-rescue operations act as a pull factor, which encourages more migrants, according to Globe and Mail. Such views are fuelled by negative nationalist-populist discourses. However, while increasing the budgets for patrolling the Mediterranean, the European Union adopted a 10-point action plan in April that gives top priority to policing and border security. British columnist Katie Hopkins wrote in the British tabloid The Sun that migrants were like cockroaches and feral humans and suggested gunships be dispatched to prevent further arrivals. Europe mostly defensive approach to forced migration reflects an increasing criminalization of migrants, including those who are in need of protection. In contrast to that position, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen recently sent two naval ships to rescue migrants from dying in the Mediterranean Sea. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.