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The European Commission will make the controversial proposal that EU member countries should take in refugees under an EU quota scheme.
The UN estimates that 60,000 people have already tried to cross the Mediterranean this year.
Migrants are being driven to make the journey by "horrific abuse" in Libya, according to Amnesty International.
More than 1,800 migrants have died this year in the Mediterranean, a 20-fold increase on the same period in 2014.
The European Commission's migration policy, to be announced on Wednesday, will also propose organising legal means for migrants to come to Europe so they do not turn to traffickers.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32685942
Still nobody is acknowledging the tough reality about where this policy will lead. Wherever the target line is drawn there will be those who will still be prepared to take their chances. In these days of mobile communications/internet, these migrants must well aware of the dangers they face but still decide to try because the majority make it. Setting an arbitrary limit will do nothing except give encouragement for more people to make the journey knowing that the chances are they'll still be rescued, taken into Europe and allowed to claim asylum. If it's implemented, what will happen to those who try the 'legal means' route into Europe but are rejected? Will they just accept their fate or simply do the other thing which so many have done before them?