migrants who arrive at the shores of Malta are sytematically detained. Malta applies a policy of administrative detention with a maximum length of 18 months. In reality, a certain amount of vulnerable persons - including children and pregnant women - are realesed within a months time, but the vast majority is released only after 10 to 12 months. After detention, the migrants live in different open centres on the island.
The UN charter allows refugees to seek asylum in the closest safe country, Egypt is the closest safe country to these people; if they are in Malta they are illegal immigrants. We could spare them the trauma of evaluation by preventing them from landing in Europe.
perunatic 4 years ago