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  Why spend money and time going legal way, if you can just pay only to get the in the boat, sail out and wait to be rescued?
  
  If you can enter a country "legally", meaning via conventional immigration mechanisms, you arent a refugee in thos context. Those are mutually exclusive.
  Secondly, those human traffickers are not cheap by any means.
  
  Why try to fix the situation in your own country, if you can just move to a better place, where everything is already built by others?
  
  Thats like chastising the jews for fleeing nazi germany instead of "building it up" and "improving their country/democracy" etc.
  Those things are a lot easier said than done from the comfort of live in a safe and wealthy western country, just saying.
context: Its called aiding in human trafficking. >
  
  Prosecuting for illegal immigration? >
  
  By helping illegal migrants those groups encourage more illegal migration. Why spend money and time going legal way, if you can just pay only to get the in the boat, sail out and wait to be rescued? Why try to fix the situation in your own country, if you can just move to a better place, where everything is already built by others? But I would say, that if that rescuer is truthful about the sentence she might receive, the punishment is way too harsh.