From Eric Dondero:

We reported here at LR back in early March on the flood of Tunisian and Algerian immigrants into extreme southern Europe, "Italy's southernmost Island flooded with North African Immigrants - Using Middle-Eastern/Northern Africa uprisings as excuse to Immigrate for Job opportunities"

Now this additional information just coming out of the Euro press...

ConervativesforAmerica blog provides this description:

To prevent the overloaded boats from Tunisia and Libya headed for Lampedusa from capsizing, young males on board have been throwing the women overboard, most of whom apparently drowned. This could partly explain the virtual absence of any women among the Tunisian masses invading Lampedusa every day now.

From the French news service Le Figaro (Google Translate):

All exclusively young men, rather poor and rarely speaking, tell the same story. As Tarek, 20, left there twenty days of Kairouan. "We were packed in 150 in a boat designed for 60, says the boy. During the trip to Lampedusa, twelve girls were thrown into the sea. Then I was transferred to Sicily, I escaped and took the train. But now I have no money, so tonight I'm going to the beach. Their sole obsession: cross the border [into France].