sep 07 SMH
Spain will try to scare off potential African migrants with television advertisements showing a young man apparently lying dead on some rocks and a mother grieving for her disappeared son ...
They are aimed at the thousands of Africans who risk journeys in open wooden boats for hundreds of kilometres to try to get to the Canary Islands in the hope of finding work in Europe.
More than 30,000 arrived last year, making illegal immigration one of Spain's biggest political issues in the summer of 2006. A large number are also believed to have drowned or died of thirst or exposure before they made it ...
