A renewed effort to target smugglers of refugees on the Mediterranean Sea is underway. The highly questionable mission will utilize warships from several European Union nations, which aim to better control the influx of refugees into the region. Smugglers ask refugees for large sums of money and then transport them on often unstable flotation devices on treacherous waters, which this year has so far resulted in the deaths of thousands. Critics fear that the use of warships against smugglers’ vessels will result in the deaths of many more refugees. teleSUR