1. Why do many of the Tunisian and Libyans who traveled to Italy illegally ultimately want to go to France?

2. How did the Italian government assist the immigrants to travel legally in Europe?

3. Why is the French government blocking all of the immigrants from entering France?

4. a) What is the European Union's Schengen agreement?
b) What clause of the Schengen agreement allows France to block the North Africans from entering France?

5. You can't blame the Tunisians and Libyans for trying to get to Europe to make a better life for themselves and/or their families.  You also can't blame the Italian or French governments from being unwilling to take an unknown number of illegal immigrants when they have their own problems with unemployment and financial challenges.  Between 20,000 to 30,000 North Africans have traveled to the Italian island of Lampedusa so far. If European countries accept them, more would likely come.
What do you think the European Union should do (as a group of countries) to deal with these men in a reasonable way?