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Maxwell L. Child ’10 will lead the newly-elected 136th Guard of The Harvard Crimson, the paper’s outgoing president announced today...
...Pulled aboard the coast-guard vessel one by one, each man looks around, eyes wide with fear, shivering from the cold. One of the Greek sailors, who wears plastic gloves and a headlamp, speaks to the men in broken English. "Where you from?" he asks. Eventually, one softly responds. "Afghanistan," he says, and the others repeat the word. None have identity documents. It's past 1 a.m., and the coast-guard captain estimates the raft left the Turkish coast four hours earlier. The men have rowed more than halfway across the strait, a few hundred yards into Greek territorial waters...
...September, authorities on Lesbos took in 1,886 undocumented immigrants, up from 925 in the same month last year and just 87 in September 2006. Athanasios Skarakakis, 53, a Mytilene sardine fisherman, regularly radios the coast guard when he spots immigrants out on the water. And though he feels bad for people desperate enough to risk their lives in such fragile craft, he worries about the impact their arrival has on his country. "We can barely make a living ourselves," he says. "What will they do? Where will they...
...Those who make it past the coast guard usually seek out the police anyway, and wind up in the state-run detention center located on a dusty hilltop two miles from Mytilene harbor. Conditions at the facility, a cream-colored converted warehouse, have human-rights advocates concerned. They say detainees don't always get proper medical care and that the warehouse is unhygienic, though Greek authorities claim to have improved the center recently, adding more bathrooms and introducing rules that allow for greater use of the outdoor area. Construction is also under way on several new centers...
...Gateway to Europe Greek officials say the problem belongs to Europe, not just to Greece. Athens wants European border-control agency Frontex to play a bigger role in Greek waters, and recently proposed a new E.U. coast guard. "The E.U. has to protect its borders," says Pavlopoulos. "And every member has to take part in that protection." Panagiotis Tzilas, coast-guard commander in Mytilene, says that saving lives should be the priority, but Greece alone can't cope with the task. "It's not a question of what we should do," says Tzilas. "It's what Europe wants...