Keep your poor, your tired, your huddled masses…but give us your rich, your wealthy, your bundled monies. Words inscribed in the base of our very own colossus - The Fat Lady of Libaty, a marker of European Southern hospitality.
49 migrants, men, women and children, stuck for 19 days on board two NGO rescue vessels just a few kilometres off Malta’s southwestern coast.
All safe European ports remain closed to them. It's a bitter cold January in the Mediterranean.