Now: in 2017, there was a catastrophic collapse of Libya’s entire human smuggling industry. I understand that your line of work – as a researcher into North Africa’s human smuggling networks – has also placed you in direct contact with at least some of these people. And the result – as clearly shown by the data – was that the entire Libyan network of human smuggling simply collapsed: almost literally, from one day to the next. Nonetheless, it certainly had a significant ‘chilling effect’, on Libya’s human smuggling network as a whole. In other words, we have to REALLY go after the criminals who actually run those human smuggling operations.
