Sicily has become a major new weigh station for migrants from Africa and the Middle East desperate to start new lives in Europe.
Since the alarming deaths off the island of Lampedusa in 2013, the influx to Sicily has soared. There, they wait to see if their asylum applications will be accepted.
Penniless, without documentation, hopes exhausted and futures dark, they felt compelled to risk their lives at sea.
Many of the migrants are in their early 20s.
Gambian migrant Lamin Beyai, age 20,…
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