Nigel Farage warned that half a million Islamist terrorists will travel to Britain under a proposed new EU migration and asylum policy.
The Ukip leader and MEP ditched his general election campaign temporarily to travel to Strasbourg to argue that it would be “wholly unacceptable” to introduce a new policy.
He cited warnings from the so-called Islamic State (also known as Isis or Isil) that it could send half a million jihadists to Europe through people-smuggling routes.
Nigel Farage believes that the move to prevent migrants drowning will cause IS terrorists to flood into Britain
The proposals followed the death of as many as 900 illegal migrants, including young children, who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya earlier this month.
Following the tragedy, European Union leaders met to agree a four-point action plan to tackle the flood of migrants attempting the perilous crossing from Libya to Italy in the hope of claiming refugee status in the EU.
MEPs are now being asked to to approve conclusions by the European Council president Donald Tusk to prevent further tragedy but Farage is adamant that he will not support them.
He will claim that they amount to a "clear demand for the rapid implementation of a common EU migration and asylum policy”.
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Farage will argue that Britain already has levels of immigration that are too high, and that opening the door to the resettlement of migrants arriving in Italy by boat would risk allowing in Islamist extremists who would "pose a direct threat to our civilisation".
Farage will say that the EU has "never failed to take advantage of a crisis" and claim that in this instance it is taking the opportunity of the migrant boat crisis to create a single immigration and asylum policy at a European level.
He will say that the prime minister must block the move or face the charge of finally and permanently giving away control of UK borders to Brussels.
Speaking in Hartlepool yesterday, Farage blamed the current crisis on British and French military intervention in support of the overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Around 1,500 migrants around believed to have drowned in the Med so far this year
He said: "When people like me said it was mad, we were discounted.
"But it's now a completely failed state and has become a conduit for human trafficking and that, I think, could become, over the next 10 years, one of the biggest General Election issues.
"What do we do? Because if all these people come by their million to Italy and Greece and are given European passports they can come here too."
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker apparently wished Farage "good luck" in the upcoming South Thanet poll, because according to a tweet from Farage, he would not have to see him in the European Parliament again.
Meanwhile, Farage has also tried to claim that the Scottish National Party is “openly racist” towards English people.
Farage told BBC Radio 5 Live: “The biggest racism I've seen in British politics is happening north of the border with the SNP, where some of the anti-English hatred is reaching a truly astonishing level and I would think that if the BBC are worried about racism that's where they ought to be looking."
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Italian Coast Guard officers disembark the body of a dead migrant off the ship Bruno Gregoretti, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Monday, April 20 2015. A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. So far rescuers saved 28 people a recovered 24 bodies. (AP Photo/Lino Azzopardi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Italian Coast Guard officers disembark the body of a dead migrant off the ship Bruno Gregoretti, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Monday, April 20 2015. A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. So far rescuers saved 28 people a recovered 24 bodies. (AP Photo/Lino Azzopardi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Rescuers help children to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Italian Coast Guard officers disembark the body of a dead migrant off the ship Bruno Gregoretti, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Monday, April 20 2015. A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. So far rescuers saved 28 people a recovered 24 bodies. (AP Photo/Lino Azzopardi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Italian Coast Guard officers prepare disembark the bodies of dead migrant off the ship Bruno Gregoretti, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Monday, April 20 2015. A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. So far rescuers saved 28 people a recovered 24 bodies. (AP Photo/Lino Azzopardi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Italian Coast Guard officers disembark the body of a dead migrant off the ship Bruno Gregoretti, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Monday, April 20 2015. A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. So far rescuers saved 28 people a recovered 24 bodies. (AP Photo/Lino Azzopardi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Italian Coast Guard officers disembark the body of a dead migrant off the ship Bruno Gregoretti, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Monday, April 20 2015. A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. So far rescuers saved 28 people a recovered 24 bodies. (AP Photo/Lino Azzopardi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Italian Coast Guard officers disembark the body of a dead migrant off the ship Bruno Gregoretti, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Monday, April 20 2015. A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. So far rescuers saved 28 people a recovered 24 bodies. (AP Photo/Lino Azzopardi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Italian Coast Guard officers disembark the body of a dead migrant off the ship Bruno Gregoretti, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Monday, April 20 2015. A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. So far rescuers saved 28 people a recovered 24 bodies. (AP Photo/Lino Azzopardi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Italian Coast Guard officers disembark the body of a dead migrant off the ship Bruno Gregoretti, in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Monday, April 20 2015. A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. So far rescuers saved 28 people a recovered 24 bodies. (AP Photo/Lino Azzopardi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Italy Migrants(11 of54)
Migrants wait to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Italy Migrants(12 of54)
Migrants wait to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Italy Migrants(13 of54)
Migrants wait to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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** ALTERNATE CROP OF ALT101 ** A rescuer cradles a child in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The Italian Coast Guard with ship Bruno Gregoretti, carrying survivors and victims of a sea disaster in Valletta's Grand Harbour, Monday, April 20 2015. A smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. So far rescuers saved 28 people a recovered 24 bodies. (AP Photo/Lino Azzopardi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Migrants wait to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Migrants wait to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Migrants wait to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A woman carries a child as she disembarks in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Migrants are taken into a bus after disembarking in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A woman carries a child as she disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A rescuer, top, cradles a child in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A migrant is helped disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Migrants wait to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Italy Migrants(25 of54)
A woman carries a child as she disembarks in the Pozzallo harbor, Sicily, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Italy Migrants(26 of54)
In this image from TV, migrants crowd at the rail aboard an Italian navy vessel as it cruises towards Italian port of Messina, Saturday April 18, 2015. UNHCR says Sunday, April 19, 2015, the search and recovery rescue operation is under way after a boat carrying migrants overturned north of Libya. (AP Photo/APTV) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Italy Migrants(27 of54)
In this image taken from video made available by Guardia Costiera, an Italian coast Guard vessel during ongoing search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, Sunday April 19, 2015, to locate migrants who are believed to be lost at sea. UNHCR says Sunday, the search and recovery rescue operation is under way after a boat carrying migrants is believed to have overturned north of Libya, with some 600 people still missing. (Guardia Costiera via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Migrants are seated, surrounded by emergency relief workers aboard a vessel at the Italian port of Messina, Saturday April 18, 2015, as migrants prepare to be processed at the quayside. UNHCR says Sunday, April 19, 2015, the search and recovery rescue operation is under way after a boat carrying migrants overturned north of Libya. (AP Photo/AP TV) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Italy Europe Migrants(29 of54)
Migrants stand on the deck of the Italian Navy ship "Driade" prior to being disembarked in Messina's port, Sicily, Italy, Saturday, April 18, 2015. Italian ships have picked up some 10,000 people, many of them refugees of war and persecution, over the past week, an unprecedented number in such a short period. The influx is putting pressure on Italy's shelter system and raising calls for a better response to the emergency. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Survivors of an accident in which a fishing boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast, sit on the deck of the Italian Coast Guard vessel Bruno Gregoretti at Boiler Wharf, Senglea in Malta on April 20, 2015. More than 700 people are feared dead following the capsize off Libya of a fishing boat that had been crammed with migrants trying to reach Europe. AFP PHOTO / MATTHEW MIRABELLI --- MALTA OUT (Photo credit should read Matthew Mirabelli/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MATTHEW MIRABELLI via Getty Images)
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The body of a person who died after a fishing boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast, is brought ashore along with 23 others retreived by the Italian Coast Guard vessel Bruno Gregoretti at Boiler Wharf, Senglea in Malta on April 20, 2015. More than 700 people are feared dead following the capsize off Libya of a fishing boat that had been crammed with migrants trying to reach Europe. AFP PHOTO / MATTHEW MIRABELLI --- MALTA OUT (Photo credit should read Matthew Mirabelli/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MATTHEW MIRABELLI via Getty Images)
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Survivors of an accident in which a fishing boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast, sit on the deck of the Italian Coast Guard vessel Bruno Gregoretti at Boiler Wharf, Senglea in Malta on April 20, 2015. More than 700 people are feared dead following the capsize off Libya of a fishing boat that had been crammed with migrants trying to reach Europe. AFP PHOTO / MATTHEW MIRABELLI --- MALTA OUT (Photo credit should read Matthew Mirabelli/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MATTHEW MIRABELLI via Getty Images)
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Survivors of an accident in which a fishing boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast, sit on the deck of the Italian Coast Guard vessel Bruno Gregoretti at Boiler Wharf, Senglea in Malta on April 20, 2015. More than 700 people are feared dead following the capsize off Libya of a fishing boat that had been crammed with migrants trying to reach Europe. AFP PHOTO / MATTHEW MIRABELLI --- MALTA OUT (Photo credit should read Matthew Mirabelli/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MATTHEW MIRABELLI via Getty Images)
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The body of person who died after fishing boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast, is photographed and documented after being brought ashore along with 23 others retreived by the Italian Coast Guard vessel Bruno Gregoretti at Boiler Wharf, Senglea in Malta on April 20, 2015. More than 700 people are feared dead following the capsize off Libya of a fishing boat that had been crammed with migrants trying to reach Europe. AFP PHOTO / MATTHEW MIRABELLI --- MALTA OUT (Photo credit should read Matthew Mirabelli/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MATTHEW MIRABELLI via Getty Images)
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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (R) gives a press conference focused on the shipwreck of migrants last night off the Libyan coast, on April 19, 2015 in Rome. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Rome would be seeking the extraordinary meeting after up to 700 people were feared to have drowned when a boat carrying them towards Italy capsized off Libya. 'We are working to ensure this meeting can be held by the end of the week. It has to be a priority,' Renzi told a press conference. AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI (Photo credit should read TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:TIZIANA FABI via Getty Images)
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MUGLA, TURKEY - APRIL 19: Turkish coast guards rescue the migrants after a migrant boat sinks off southwestern Turkey, Mugla, Turkey on April 19, 2015. Thirty-one more people were rescued when the boat allegedly carrying illegal migrants sank off Turkeys southwestern Mugla province, Turkish officials have said. According to initial reports, the vessel was heading to Greeces Kos Island, about two miles (3.2 kilometers) from the coast of Turkey, when it capsized off Bodrum in Mugla. (Photo by Ali Balli/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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MUGLA, TURKEY - APRIL 19: Turkish coast guards rescue the migrants after a migrant boat sinks off southwestern Turkey, Mugla, Turkey on April 19, 2015. Thirty-one more people were rescued when the boat allegedly carrying illegal migrants sank off Turkeys southwestern Mugla province, Turkish officials have said. According to initial reports, the vessel was heading to Greeces Kos Island, about two miles (3.2 kilometers) from the coast of Turkey, when it capsized off Bodrum in Mugla. (Photo by Ali Balli/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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MUGLA, TURKEY - APRIL 19: Turkish coast guards rescue the migrants after a migrant boat sinks off southwestern Turkey, Mugla, Turkey on April 19, 2015. Thirty-one more people were rescued when the boat allegedly carrying illegal migrants sank off Turkeys southwestern Mugla province, Turkish officials have said. According to initial reports, the vessel was heading to Greeces Kos Island, about two miles (3.2 kilometers) from the coast of Turkey, when it capsized off Bodrum in Mugla. (Photo by Ali Balli/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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MUGLA, TURKEY - APRIL 19: Illegal migrants recued by coast guards are seen after a migrant boat sinks off southwestern Turkey, Mugla, Turkey on April 19, 2015. Thirty-one more people were rescued when the boat allegedly carrying illegal migrants sank off Turkeys southwestern Mugla province, Turkish officials have said. According to initial reports, the vessel was heading to Greeces Kos Island, about two miles (3.2 kilometers) from the coast of Turkey, when it capsized off Bodrum in Mugla. (Photo by Ali Balli/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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MUGLA, TURKEY - APRIL 19: Turkish coast guards rescue the migrants after a migrant boat sinks off southwestern Turkey, Mugla, Turkey on April 19, 2015. Thirty-one more people were rescued when the boat allegedly carrying illegal migrants sank off Turkeys southwestern Mugla province, Turkish officials have said. According to initial reports, the vessel was heading to Greeces Kos Island, about two miles (3.2 kilometers) from the coast of Turkey, when it capsized off Bodrum in Mugla. (Photo by Ali Balli/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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MUGLA, TURKEY - APRIL 19: Turkish coast guards rescue the migrants after a migrant boat sinks off southwestern Turkey, Mugla, Turkey on April 19, 2015. Thirty-one more people were rescued when the boat allegedly carrying illegal migrants sank off Turkeys southwestern Mugla province, Turkish officials have said. According to initial reports, the vessel was heading to Greeces Kos Island, about two miles (3.2 kilometers) from the coast of Turkey, when it capsized off Bodrum in Mugla. (Photo by Ali Balli/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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MUGLA, TURKEY - APRIL 19: Turkish coast guards rescue the migrants after a migrant boat sinks off southwestern Turkey, Mugla, Turkey on April 19, 2015. Thirty-one more people were rescued when the boat allegedly carrying illegal migrants sank off Turkeys southwestern Mugla province, Turkish officials have said. According to initial reports, the vessel was heading to Greeces Kos Island, about two miles (3.2 kilometers) from the coast of Turkey, when it capsized off Bodrum in Mugla. (Photo by Ali Balli/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Italy Migrants(43 of54)
A migrant is helped disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:Alessandra Tarantino/AP)
Italy Migrants(44 of54)
A woman carries a child as she disembarks in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:Alessandra Tarantino/AP)
Italy Migrants(45 of54)
Migrants wait to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:Alessandra Tarantino/AP)
Italy Migrants(46 of54)
A woman carries a child as she disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, Italy, early Monday, April 20, 2015. About 100 migrants, including 28 children, were rescued on Sunday by a merchant vessel in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. Another smuggler's boat crammed with hundreds of people overturned off Libya's coast on Saturday as rescuers approached, causing what could be the Mediterranean's deadliest known migrant tragedy and intensifying pressure on the European Union Sunday to finally meet demands for decisive action. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) (credit:Alessandra Tarantino/AP)
Italy Europe Migrants(47 of54)
Migrants sit on the deck of an Italian Coastal Guard boat as they wait to disembark at Palermo's harbor, Italy, after being rescued at sea, Saturday, April 18, 2015. Italian ships have picked up some 10,000 people, many of them refugees of war and persecution, over the past week, an unprecedented number in such a short period. The influx is putting pressure on Italy's shelter system and raising calls for a better response to the emergency. (AP Photo/Alessandro Fucarini) (credit:Alessandro Fucarini/AP)
Italy Europe Migrants(48 of54)
Migrants stand on the deck of the Italian Navy ship "Driade" prior to being disembarked in Messina's port, Sicily, Italy, Saturday, April 18, 2015. Italian ships have picked up some 10,000 people, many of them refugees of war and persecution, over the past week, an unprecedented number in such a short period. The influx is putting pressure on Italy's shelter system and raising calls for a better response to the emergency. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi) (credit:Carmelo Imbesi/AP)
Italy Europe Migrants(49 of54)
Migrants receive first aid upon disembarking from Italian Navy ship "Driade" in Messina's port, Sicily, Italy, Saturday, April 18, 2015. Italian ships have picked up some 10,000 people, many of them refugees of war and persecution, over the past week, an unprecedented number in such a short period. The influx is putting pressure on Italy's shelter system and raising calls for a better response to the emergency. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi) (credit:Carmelo Imbesi/AP)
Italy Europe Migrants(50 of54)
Migrants receive first aid upon disembarking from Italian Navy ship "Driade" in Messina's port, Sicily, Italy, Saturday, April 18, 2015. Italian ships have picked up some 10,000 people, many of them refugees of war and persecution, over the past week, an unprecedented number in such a short period. The influx is putting pressure on Italy's shelter system and raising calls for a better response to the emergency. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi) (credit:Carmelo Imbesi/AP)
Italy Europe Migrants(51 of54)
Migrants receive first aid upon disembarking from Italian Navy ship "Driade" in Messina's port, Sicily, Italy, Saturday, April 18, 2015. Italian ships have picked up some 10,000 people, many of them refugees of war and persecution, over the past week, an unprecedented number in such a short period. The influx is putting pressure on Italy's shelter system and raising calls for a better response to the emergency. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi) (credit:Carmelo Imbesi/AP)
Italy Europe Migrants(52 of54)
An Italian Navy officer gives instruction to migrants who are waiting to disembark from Italian Navy ship "Driade" in Messina's port, Sicily, Italy, Saturday, April 18, 2015. Italian ships have picked up some 10,000 people, many of them refugees of war and persecution, over the past week, an unprecedented number in such a short period. The influx is putting pressure on Italy's shelter system and raising calls for a better response to the emergency. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi) (credit:Carmelo Imbesi/AP)
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Migrants stand on the deck of the Italian Navy ship "Driade" prior to being disembarked in Messina's port, Sicily, Italy, Saturday, April 18, 2015. Italian ships have picked up some 10,000 people, many of them refugees of war and persecution, over the past week, an unprecedented number in such a short period. The influx is putting pressure on Italy's shelter system and raising calls for a better response to the emergency. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi) (credit:Carmelo Imbesi/AP)
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A migrant holding a child receives first aid upon disembarking from Italian Navy ship "Driade" in Messina's port, Sicily, Italy, Saturday, April 18, 2015. Italian ships have picked up some 10,000 people, many of them refugees of war and persecution, over the past week, an unprecedented number in such a short period. The influx is putting pressure on Italy's shelter system and raising calls for a better response to the emergency. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi) (credit:Carmelo Imbesi/AP)