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Italy's migrant crisis is spawning new protests
ABC News ^ | 15 July 2017

Posted on 07/17/2017 2:37:57 PM PDT by Lorianne

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The Latest on the migrant crisis in Europe (all times local):

10:40 p.m.

Italy's migrant crisis is spawning new protests, with a local mayor in Sicily leading a popular revolt to prevent a few dozen new arrivals from taking up residence in an abandoned hotel.

Vincenzo Lionetto, mayor of Castel'Umberto in Messina, wrote an "urgent and important" Facebook post advising residents that the local prefect had just informed him that the 30 or so migrants would be transferred to the Canguro hotel.

He led a dozen or so residents in surrounding the hotel with their cars Saturday, though the migrants apparently were already inside.

Tensions over migration are running high in Italy, with daily arrivals of new asylum-seekers and local officials complaining they don't have space to take them in. The issue is particularly sensitive with elections expected this year or next.

Spain's maritime rescue service says that it has saved 19 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in a small boat.

The service tells The Associated Press that all 19 migrants were men claiming Algerian nationality.

The boat was spotted late on Friday night, and rescuers reached it early on Saturday morning in waters off the southeastern coast of Spain.

Thousands of migrants from Africa attempt the perilous crossing to Europe in small boats that are unfit for the open sea and often launched by human smugglers

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: italy; migration

1 posted on 07/17/2017 2:37:57 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

What’s that word the Muslims use to describe invasion through immigration? It’s right on the tip of my tongue. Oh yeah...HIJRA.


2 posted on 07/17/2017 2:45:26 PM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom not more government.)
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To: jdsteel
Soon the Lupera will be seen and the snakes in the government will need mend their ways.

Sicily knows how to deal with invaders, they have had them over the millenia.

3 posted on 07/17/2017 3:04:43 PM PDT by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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To: Lorianne

Protests will do nothing. They are an expected part of the process and plans are in place suppress them, outlast them and minimize their coverage. Until the few remaining men among the euro-weenies actually start revolting (and by that I mean blood in the streets and the halls of govt) nothing will change. It’s time for them to decide - do what is necessary to preserve their culture or sit down and watch it die.


4 posted on 07/17/2017 3:07:44 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: Lorianne

Kick them out.


5 posted on 07/17/2017 3:23:23 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Acting consistently in contradiction with one's human nature is de facto evidence of insanity.)
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To: jdsteel

Ghaddafi warned Europe and the USA that Lybia was the wall separating millions of Islamic colonists. The USA decided to use NATO and the Clinton State Department to overthrow a sovereign country and assassinate its leader. Mission accomplished.


6 posted on 07/17/2017 3:57:31 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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