Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, Spain), 11 June (LaPresse) – “We cannot get used to counting the dead. Human dignity has no passport, nor does it lose its value when it crosses a border.” Pope Leo XIV said this whilst meeting migrants and volunteers at the Arguineguín pier in Gran Canaria, known as the ‘pier of shame’ and a symbol of the 2020 migration crisis. Addressing the migrants, the Pontiff affirmed that their lives must “be protected” and urged them “not to hand over” their lives to traffickers. “Do not believe those who promise easy paradises in exchange for your body, your money, your silence or your freedom. Those false promises are ‘siren songs’; they are industries of death,” warned Prevost.