Sentence examples for migrants are picked from inspiring English sources

But if the migrants are picked up by the Libyans in their own waters, they can be taken back to Libya instead.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are picked up, fined, sent home or forced to work under a special set of rules that are outside normal criminal procedures.

After setting sail from Libya in rubber inflatables, wooden fishing boats or other rickety, overcrowded vessels, migrants are picked up by the Italian navy and taken to Sicily or, occasionally, the Italian mainland.

Last month 107 Rohingya migrants were picked up by the Indian coastguard off the Andaman islands.

More than 900 other migrants were picked up by coastguard and customs police boats, while the rest were rescued by various ships in the area, the TV station said.

They say about 120 Syrian migrants were picked up from the vessel, which had encountered rough seas.

"Sometimes we see the same illegal migrants being picked up by street patrols twice in one month," he said.

Clearly, if the migrant is picked up in the Channel or on a beach then such issues do not materialize.

Our first day begins at 5.15am, watching through the morning mist as droves of predominantly migrant workers are picked up from the town's car parks and ferried to nearby fields and food-processing plants (around 75% of the UK's vegetables are grown here).

Groups of migrants can find themselves stranded at sea until they are picked up by the Djiboutian Coast Guard.

Once clear of the Libyan coast, a distress call is made in the hope that the migrants will be picked up either by a passing merchant ship or fishing boat or by the Italian or Maltese coast guards.