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Smugglers Offer Luxury Passage for Migrants, if They Can Pay

By · On June 1, 2017

It was a far cry from rotting the fishing boats and overstuffed dinghies that carry so many thousands of migrants precariously to Italian shores. The family of six had paid $96,000 to travel from Afghanistan to Turkey. The last leg of their journey, a cramped week’s sail through the Aegean and Mediterranean seas aboard a cerulean yacht, the Polina, piloted by three Ukrainian skippers, cost $7000 per head. Read More

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