article_snippet.sent: the April 17 article in the newspaper came as migrant boat tragedies in the Mediterranean escalated.
article_snippet.sent: Eritrean migrant Wegasi Nebiat is saved by rescuers after the wooden boat carrying Eritrean migrant Wegasi Nebiat crashed off the popular Greek island of Rhodes .
article_snippet.sent: Clinging on: Migrants trying to reach Greece are seen onboard a capsizing sailboat off the coast of Rhodes . '
article_snippet.sent: Make no mistake, Migrants trying to reach Greece are like cockroaches,' she wrote. '
article_snippet.sent: Migrants trying to reach Greece might look like 'Bob Geldof's Ethiopia circa 1984' but Migrants trying to reach Greece are built to survive a nuclear bomb.' '
article_snippet.sent: Some of our towns are festering sores, plagued by swarms of migrants and asylum seekers, shelling out benefits like Monopoly money.'
article_snippet.sent: Debris from the wooden ship in the Mediterranean.
article_snippet.sent: Coastguards in Rhodes say the migrant crisis is a problem not just for Greece and Italy, but for all of Europe .
article_snippet.sent: Migrants who were trying to reach Greece hold onto the wreckage of a sailboat near the coast of the southeastern island of Rhodes earlier this week .
article_snippet.sent: Rescued migrants disembark an Italian Coast Guard vessel in the Sicilian harbour of Catania earlier this week, throwing Rescued migrants hands in the air in celebration at surviving the perillous journey .
article_snippet.sent: The vast majority of the migrant boats set off from the Libya, which has descended into chaos in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution which saw Colonel Gaddafi swept from power with the support of France and Britain.