Libyan War Traps Poor Immigrants

    A new refuge crisis is rising on the outskirts of Tripolis, wearing thousands of migrant workers from sub-Saharan Africa have been trapped with limited supply of food and water, no international assistance and little hope for escape. Many of the immigrants are fighting to survive, and trying to live off of what they can. As seen in The New York Times,

"The migrants — many of them illegal immigrants from Ghana and Nigeria who have long constituted an impoverished underclass in Libya — live amid piles of garbage, sleep in makeshift tents of blankets strung from fences and trees, and breathe fumes from a trench of excrement dividing their camp from the parking lot of Tripoli’s airport".

Most of the immigrants are trapped due to lack of passports or other documents that are necessary to board the planes. Many of these immigrants are desperately trying to flee the country, just to get away from the violent outburst that's taking place in Libya.

"The airport refugees, along with tens of thousands of other African migrants lucky enough to make it across the border to Tunisia, are the most desperate contingent of a vast exodus that has already sent almost 200,000 foreigners fleeing the country since the outbreak of the popular revolt against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi nearly three weeks ago".

Many immigrants can't get out of Tunisia, and at this point, this rate, their odds of ever getting the chance to leave the country look very slim. The option of leaving the airport or going across the boarder didn't seem like something they would do, just because they are fearful of assaults by the Libyan citizens or militia checkpoints. Not even international aid workers can help them, because the Libyan Government made tight security around the Tripoli prevents any of them through. If the immigrants can't find a way out, it won't be a very happy ending for them...