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Italy's 'nuclear option' to migrant crisis: give EU visas to 200,000 incomers and send them north
The Daily Mail ^ | July 15, 2017 | Liz Dunphy

Posted on 07/15/2017 5:06:29 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Italian government officials have threatened to issue temporary EU visas to thousands of migrants in an effort to deal with Italy's escalating migrant and refugee crisis that would allow new arrivals to travel north.

In what has been described as a 'nuclear option,' Italian government officials have threatened to allow 200,000 migrants who enter the country to travel across Europe by using a Brussels directive, The Times reports.

More than 86,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Italy already this year.

Italy has been struggling to cope with a huge rise in people fleeing north Africa and hundreds of asylum seekers are now packed into overcrowded centres in small villages throughout the country which have been dubbed 'human warehouses' by locals.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: eu; europeanunion; italy
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To: Trump20162020

86 000 have crossed this year. That’s nothing.

Millions are on the way.


21 posted on 07/15/2017 8:52:12 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: heights
where are the German Men?

In the ground around Stalingrad.

22 posted on 07/15/2017 8:53:12 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: Jim Noble

We call ours the Greatest Generation. They need to call theirs the last Male Generation.


23 posted on 07/15/2017 8:56:55 PM PDT by 11Bush
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To: heights

They are in ditches from Verdum to Uman.


24 posted on 07/15/2017 9:05:17 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: 353FMG
Interesting...

"You wanted your independence. Sucks to be you."

25 posted on 07/15/2017 9:09:34 PM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: Trump20162020

Send ‘em all the Merkel’s house.


26 posted on 07/15/2017 9:10:43 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Trump20162020

BRexit can’t come soon enough.


27 posted on 07/16/2017 12:47:03 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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