Operações contra imigração ilegal prendem refugiados simplesmente por pilotar botes ou segurar uma bússola - mas pegam poucos traficantes de verdade.

Zealous anti-smuggling investigations in Italy put refugees in prison merely for driving a rubber boat or holding a compass, tactics that catch few real traffickers.

The EU’s border agency, Frontex, says people were smuggled on an NGO’s ship, but the account is countered by the crew and video evidence.

Documents detail how the EU’s border agency, Frontex, withdrew its patrols from the area where most refugee boats capsize. Nonprofits are scrambling to fill the gaps.

Bulgaria’s border police engage in routine violence to deter asylum seekers and expel them from Bulgarian territory. Unless the refugees pay.