And a debate has even emerged about the very words used to describe people. The word migrant is defined in Oxford English Dictionary as "one who moves, either temporarily or permanently ...
Others had on flip flops and socks as it started to rain. The group of recently arrived migrant families were headed from the tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field to a Salvation Army five miles ...
But many of those intercepted end up in detention centres in Libya, where some migrants say they are used as slaves, as the BBC's Stephanie Hegarty found when she spoke to some Nigerians who have ...