"The Case for Open Borders": There's nothing you can do to prevent it

A raft completely packed full of people, crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Image source.

I want to share another quote from "The Case for Open Borders." This is from page 61:

For every person dying in the Mediterranean, often declared the deadliest migrant crossing zone in the world, another two people, according to United Nations figures, are dying in the desert on their way to the Mediterranean. "There is nothing you can do to prevent it. It's too strong," Giuseppe Loprete, an International Organization for Migration (IOM) official who worked for years in the Sahel region, told me about migration in the region. "It's not even a calculation," Loprete said. "People have to leave."