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Italy Considers Immigration Crackdown As Migrants Overwhelm Tiny Island

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Jake Smith
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September 18, 2023 12:50 PM ET


Italy’s government is considering “extraordinary measures” to crackdown on migration after one of the country’s small islands was overwhelmed by thousands of migrants in just one day, the Associated Press reported on Monday.

Lampedusa, a small island off the coast of Italy with a resident population of 6,300, was overwhelmed last week after almost 7,000 migrants arrived by hundreds of boats from Tunisia in one day. The Italian cabinet met on Monday to discuss a number of measures to throttle further waves of migration, as the country has taken in a total of 124,000 migrants this year, nearly double than the number of incoming migrants from the previous year, according to the AP.


Hotspot #Lampedusa 13.09 anno 2023 – 7000 persone, molti uomini giovanissimi ammassati nel centro di Contrada Imbriacola. Una bomba ad orologeria che ricorda il 2011. Sono passati 12 anni ma la clessidra sembra tornare indietro nel tempo #migranti (Immagini esclusiva #Rainews24) pic.twitter.com/i5nnPZeLhw

— angela caponnetto (@AngiKappa) September 13, 2023


Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni called for a naval blockade surrounding North Africa to stop human traffickers from smuggling migrants through the Mediterranean sea, according to the AP. Among the other potential measures discussed was an extension on the amount of time migrants can be detained in the European Union (EU) to an 18-month maximum, as well as an increase in the number of detention centers to hold them until they can be sent back.

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