Posted on 12/31/2016 11:20:16 AM PST by Mariner
Italy will seek to deport more migrants who have no right to be in the country and will open new detention centers to hold them before their expulsion, according to a written directive and a ministry source.
Police chief Franco Gabrielli sent a two-page directive to stations across the country on Friday ordering them to increase efforts to identify and deport migrants a week after Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri was shot dead near Milan.
The directive, seen by Reuters, says police should take "extraordinary action" before the "growing migratory pressure in an international context marked by instability and threats" to "control and remove irregular foreigners."
Interior Minister Marco Minniti plans to open several new detention centers that hold migrants prior to their expulsion, a ministry source said, in line with repeated requests by European Union partners.
The tougher migrant stance, which several Italian papers ran on their front pages on Saturday, is the first major policy change made by Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni's government since it took power in mid-December, and comes on the heels of a record year of boat migrant arrivals.
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Many would argue it's long overdue.
Every nation of Europe is beginning to have such rumblings...starting first with "illegals" that have not been granted asylum.
Ethnic cleansing?? They’re not supposed to be there. A country without borders is not a country.
Sounds to me they just want to enforce immigration laws.
The European Union was designed to eliminate borders and national identity. A bad move. The best thing European countries can do now is drop out of the EU and restore their borders.
They better get going before it is too late......
Brexit may be the start of the dissolving of the EU...That would help....
Italy’s first mistake was allowing the overflow from Greece. They’ve got at least one island that’s been overrun by parasites.
Italy’s first mistake was allowing the overflow from Greece. They’ve got at least one island that’s been overrun by parasites.
Agreed.
Do my ancestors still have the will or the numbers to achieve this?
Pop was born there and would have headed back there for a year to help throw them out if he was young enough.
He came over very young in the 20’s and fought the Axis in WWII. Dont know if he fought on Italian soil but he would have without a second thought.
Me, I love Italy but it ain’t home.
And home needs us all right now.
This was a smart move. The vast majority of the illegal aliens will pack up and depart to other EU countries with most haste. It will cost the Italians nothing.
Look for other countries quickly follow suite as there will be a mad dash not to be the last destination country when the music stops.
At least the Italians had the sense to throw their little King a necktie party.
Who would have thought that the Italians would take a tougher stance than the Germans? A lot has changed in 70 years.
The death/bankruptcy/collapse of the social-engineering, debt-producing nanny-state must occur before Italians or Europeans will be energized to reclaim their culture and heritage.
That’s true. But they’re a mess. As is a lot of W Europe.
Paging Barack Hussein Obama. Barack Hussein Obama to the white courtesy telephone, please.
Not ethnic cleansing, trespassing cleansing. These are people who had no rights or status to be where they went to.
You’re either a country or a way station, a flophouse for bums. Until they drain you dry and move on to other Euros with money.
“Viva Italia”
You mean SF & LA?
Cut off all the welfare, and most will leave on their own.
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