We have the same problem here. We are just not targeting the people smugglers, even when people die or as with 2 years ago freeze to death in the back of a refrigerated lorry. We need to find and prosecute the people who make huge amounts of out of those less fortunate and are desperate to leave, while not giving a damn about their welfare once they have their money.
Oh and may be invest in those countries, so that they don't need to leave, they have good jobs, good pay etc.
At the same time let not allow big tech etc to exploit those people for their personal data, information so they end up assimilated in to making the west richer and the rest of the world poorer.
Time to tax the big companies so that wealth can be more evenly distributed.
