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Tiny Italian island struggles to cope with 6800 migrants who arrived in 1 day.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:22 am
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:22 am
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A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa was overwhelmed Thursday as it coped with transferring thousands of people to the mainland after they arrived on small, unseaworthy boats in a 24-hour span this week.
The Red Cross said there were still 4,200 migrants at the center, out of the 6,800 who reached the tiny tourist and fishing island in a flotilla of some 120 boats arriving from Tunisia. Transfers to the mainland were ongoing.
“After a particularly challenging day like yesterday, today people are being continuously transferred,’’ said Francesca Basile of the Italian Red Cross. “The situation is certainly complex and gradually we are trying to return to normal.”
She said all of the migrants had been given food, and that camping beds were being distributed “so that they don’t sleep in the cold.”
With the reception center overflowing, migrants whose movements are usually tightly controlled were able to slip away, and were seen all over the island, according to volunteers. In some cases, residents handed out pasta and Sicilian rice balls along with water.
As Italian television SKY TG24 filmed outside the center, migrants could be seen climbing over the wall in the background.
On Wednesday, some migrants scuffled for food and bottles of water, according to Sicilian media. Others jumped into the sea to cool off.
SKY TG24 reported just one migrant boat arrived on the island Thursday, carrying 44 people.
Lampedusa’s mayor, Filippo Mannino, lashed out at Europe for leaving Italy alone to grapple with migrant arrivals by sea, saying the bloc had “remained silent all these months.” He called for a structural solution to the migrant crisis, and told SKY that Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni had pledged her support.
Speaking to a demographics conference in Hungary, Meloni said that Italy's demographic decline should not be resolved with immigrants working to support the social welfare system and keep the economy humming. She said she would support a quota system “where necessary and (where it) can be fully integrated.”
According to the Interior Ministry, nearly 124,000 migrants had reached Italy by sea this year by Wednesday, roughly double the number by the same time last year. On Thursday, another 180 migrants rescued at sea were brought to the port city of Salerno, south of Naples.
In 2016, Italy saw the highest-ever number of arrivals by sea, when some 181,400 migrants arrived, according to figures from the U.N. migration agency.
Separately, a group of European Union lawmakers hit out at Tunisian authorities on Thursday after they were denied entry into the country for a visit aimed at better understanding the migration-focused agreement Tunis recently signed with the EU. They called the refusal "unprecedented since the democratic revolution in 2011.''
Tunisia has become the main stepping stone to Italy this year, replacing Libya, where widespread abuse of migrants has been reported. The port city of Sfax is a central jumping-off point for Africans who converge on Tunisia in the hopes of making the risky boat journey across the Mediterranean.
The cross-party delegation was led by chair Michael Gahler along with Dietmar Koester, both from Germany, and French lawmakers Salima Yenbou, Mounir Satouri and Emmanuel Maurel.
The visit was slated as a follow-up to a trip in April 2022, which was launched amid concerns about democratic backsliding in Tunisia. The new mission, which was meant to run from Sept. 14-16, was also aimed at promoting dialogue between Tunisia’s political parties.
The lawmakers warned that “the dire economic and social situation in Tunisia, further aggravated by the humanitarian crisis, urgently requires a comprehensive national dialogue, without which the prospects for stable political and economic development in Tunisia remain bleak.”
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124,000 illegal immigrants arriving by boat to Italy this year by September alone.
Many are from Sub-Saharan Africa - the problem is only going to get worse as Africa's population grows over the next 40 years.
This post was edited on 9/14/23 at 11:24 am
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:27 am to CAPEX
Why can we not just shoot them?
Seriously, the non-humanist value of a body is like $2.10 in minerals.
WEF isn’t entirely wrong when they say there’s too many people, but they’re backwards: too many third worlders, not enough first worlders.
Seriously, the non-humanist value of a body is like $2.10 in minerals.
WEF isn’t entirely wrong when they say there’s too many people, but they’re backwards: too many third worlders, not enough first worlders.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:28 am to CAPEX
Southern Italy doesn’t really have an ethically native population like the rest of Europe. It was conquered so many times by Arabs and Africans due to its close proximity to North Africa. Sicily should really just be its own country because it’s nothing like Northern Italy and the rest of Europe
This post was edited on 9/14/23 at 11:31 am
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:29 am to CAPEX
Europe is going to be a warzone in 20 years. The homicidal retards they're importing will breed like rabits and create more homicidal retards.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:33 am to Gifman
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Europe is going to be a warzone in 20 years. The homicidal retards they're importing will breed like rabits and create more homicidal retards.
It's honestly scary.
I presume most of those migrants don't have any actual useful skills considering European countries have lots of pathways for skilled immigrants to immigrate.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:36 am to Gifman
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Europe is going to be a warzone in 20 years. The homicidal retards they're importing will breed like rabits and create more homicidal retards.
Sounds like the US.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:36 am to CAPEX
The Western ruling class are destroying the west. Betrayal is one of the worst of sins.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:36 am to CAPEX
This is a small island of 6,000 residents. You need a visual to appreciate this craziness...
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Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:40 am to goldenturbo
So many working/fighting age males. What could go wrong.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:40 am to goldenturbo
Looks like all males and no females.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:40 am to CAPEX
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the problem is only going to get worse as Africa's population grows over the next 40 years.
The heart of Africa is the last remaining place in the world with sky high birth rates.
This post was edited on 9/14/23 at 11:41 am
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:40 am to goldenturbo
Love to see all those doctors, engineers and scholars.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:45 am to Tigers2010a
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The heart of Africa is the last remaining place in the world with sky high birth rates.
It's all they do well.
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:46 am to Tigers2010a
What happened to birth control pills?
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:48 am to CAPEX
I believe they confused an invasion with a arrival
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:50 am to CAPEX
Read Douglas Murray “the strange death of Europe”
He broke down lampadeusa and how illegals have been using that as the stepping stone to Europe a few years ago
Really interesting
He broke down lampadeusa and how illegals have been using that as the stepping stone to Europe a few years ago
Really interesting
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:54 am to Lawyered
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Read Douglas Murray “the strange death of Europe”
I read it a few years ago I believe (I might be misremembering).
From a cultural stand point, he made perfect sense.
But I felt he didn't refute the economic argument very strongly. He cited a study that looked at the economic impacts of immigrants themselves but not their kids.
But that seems rather unfair considering he mentioned the cultural aspects of both immigrants and their kids.
It seemed to focus extensively on Islam if I remember correctly as well.
This post was edited on 9/14/23 at 11:55 am
Posted on 9/14/23 at 11:58 am to CAPEX
Looks like it's about 90% men. You invite uneducated hordes into your country with no females around and wonder why they have nothing to do but rape and pillage
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