Italy calls for mass migrant deportations as half a million refugees arrive

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'Time to act' Italy calls for mass migrant deportations as half a million refugees arrive

TERROR attacks across Europe have sparked a new push to see illegal immigrants sent home from Italy as the police are told to toughen up on refugees in 2017.

By ZOIE O'BRIEN
02:44, Tue, Jan 3, 2017

Paolo Gentiloni will take a much harder stance on the problem than his party colleague Matteo Renzi, under whose leadership hundreds of thousands of migrants entered the EU through Italy.

A two-page directive has reportedly been sent out to police stations across Italy ordering officers to increase efforts to deport economic migrants.

The document was drafted by chief of police Franco Gabrielli and part-published in Italian newspaper Courier della Sera.

Indicating fear of terror in Europe, the notice says the change is important to battle “a growing migratory pressure and an international context marked by instability and threats”.

Italy will open 16 detention centres for migrants under new rules where those detained will stay until deportation can be arranged.

Europhile Matteo Renzi said he could manage integration in Italy and refused investment in detention centres.

But wanes of migrants landed on Italian islands and scenes of chaos were broadcast over international news channels.


Thousands of migrants continue to flood in to Italy

Last year the number of migrants arriving by boat increased by almost one fifth.

More than half-a-million have now arrived in Italy over a three year period - more than the entire population of Tuscan capital Florence.

Officials have said the death toll in the Mediterranean has now passed 4,400 for people travelling the perilous route from Libya to Italy.

The route is now the most used, taking over the Aegean Sea crossing to become the choice route for smugglers in Africa.

United Nations High Commission released figures last week showing 180,000 used the route in 2016.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...-deport-terror

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Thousands Of Migrants Cross From Libya To Italy, And Not A War 'Refugee' Among Them

While many countries in Europe have agreed to take so-called refugees from Islamic-State afflicted Iraq and Syria, of those crossing to Italy in the past week the vast majority are actually economic migrants, not refugees. According to the leaked document the largest group crossing are Nigerians at nearly one-fifth, followed by Gambians at 15 per cent, and Senegalese at ten per cent.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016...refugee-among/

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