article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage has called for any migrants rescued from the Mediterranean to be sent back to Africa.
article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage urged Prime Minister David Cameron to resist pressure at an emergency summit of EU leaders in Brussels tomorrow for Britain to take in large numbers of refugees brought across the Mediterranean by people-smugglers.
article_snippet.sent: Europe has been urged to copy Australia's military-led 'stop the boats' policy to avoid migrant tragedies in the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: Australian PM Tony Abbott – who sends naval gunboats to turn back asylum seekers before asylum seekers reach Australia – said Europe should 'urgently' follow Tony Abbott lead.
article_snippet.sent: That's why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people-smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.'
article_snippet.sent: Operation Sovereign Borders involves the Australian Navy intercepting boats filled with migrants at sea, and either turning them back or towing them back to where them came from.
article_snippet.sent: In the Mediterranean, callous people smugglers have been exploiting a willingness by European nations to rescue migrants rather than send callous people smugglers back.
article_snippet.sent: The Prime Minister and other European leaders are under mounting pressure to come up with a plan to stem the rising number of migrants killed trying to cross the sea for a better life in Europe.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage said Britain bore a burden of responsibility for the flow of migrants heading out of north Africa because of north Africa military interventions in countries like Libya and Iraq.
article_snippet.sent: I'm suggesting that millions of people should be making sure that those people coming in vessels that are not seaworthy should be put into vessels which are seaworthy and taken back to where those people came from. '
article_snippet.sent: The mayor of London insisted action was required to 'choke off the problem at source' to stop migrants being put on to unseaworthy vessels to travel across the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa.