John Bolton on Plans to Send Illegals to Libya: ‘I Would Not Call Libya a Safe Country’

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BOLTON: "Well, it‘s pretty remarkable when you think of it. Certainly, in the case of asylum seekers, they can be sent to third countries under international conventions and our own law if that country is deemed a safe place, sometimes called 'safe third country destinations.' I would not call Libya a safe country. I looked at the State Department advisory just to make sure nothing had happened that I missed in the past couple of weeks, and it says flatly, 'Do not travel to Libya.' The country has been divided by civil war for at least seven — seven years now. There‘s a government that has limited control in the western part of the country, a rebel force that has control in the eastern part of the country. Conflict could break out at any time. Libya is anarchic and over most of its territory, foreign terrorist groups have gone there. It‘s also a source of refugees coming from Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa. When you see pictures of boats of refugees in the Mediterranean headed toward Italy, a lot of them come through Libya with human traffickers. It‘s a very dangerous place, not just for foreigners, but for the people who live there. It‘s almost inconceivable that they would think — I mean, I could think of other places that are bad, but it‘s hard to think of one that‘s worse than Libya right now."