Everywhere in our world the sense of insecurity makes the local people fearful of migrants and this leads their governments to enact restrictive migration legislation.
As a consequence, illegal immigrants have increased (2.5 to 4 million a year). Illegal immigration has now become a structural phenomenon all over the world. Those benefiting the most from this are the international organisations actively engaged in smuggling people across borders; but those who suffer the consequences for illegal border crossings, and too often lose their lives, are migrants and refugees. More inhuman still is the so-called "trade" of human beings involving hundreds of thousand of women and children every year, forced into prostitution or servile jobs in conditions of actual slavery.
