"unaccompanied minors"...
Posted on 06/10/2018 5:42:49 PM PDT by Simon Green
A group of more than 600 migrants appear to have become the first subjects of the new Italian government's tough immigration stance without having even set foot on Italian soil.
A charity rescue vessel carrying 629 people is currently stranded in the Mediterranean after Matteo Salvini, the new Italian interior minister, reportedly refused to allow it to dock at Italian ports.
Mr Salvini, whose far-right League Party's tough line on immigration won it a record number of votes in March's election, has promised to deport half a million illegal migrants from Italy.
He was sworn in as the country's interior minister on 1 June after the formation of an awkward anti-establishment coalition.
The vessel, the Aquarius, which is operated jointly by Medecine Sans Frontiers and SOS Medeterranee, was refused a port of disembarkation by the Italian authorities despite having been told to rescue the migrants by the same co-ordination centre.
The vessel was told to ask Malta to provide a disembarkation port, but Malta has also refused.
Among the migrants on board are 123 unaccompanied minors, 11 children and seven pregnant women. The crew say they have enough food for another two to three days at sea.
The migrants were rescued in several separate operations in the Mediterranean over the past 24 hours - all of which had been carried out at the request of the Italian authorities who are now refusing disembarkation.
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Run by & paid for by whom?
ping
Stranded? Did the Ship run out of Fuel?
Why don’t they just go to France? They have Ports too.
Until they start shooting, they are not serious.
North Africa has several nice ports that are a very short distance from Italy. Try there.
Soros, most likely.
How ‘bout North Africa? Is Benghazi available? Tripoli? Algiers?
Some reason you can’t take them to an African port for safe debarkation?
They’re not refugees. They need to stay where they are and solve their own problems instead of invading other nations for their welfare programs.
Libya has ports; Tripoli, Benghazi, Tobruk. Go to one of them.
BINGO!!
A boat load of parasites.
Pass.
The real point is that once you start refusing they will stop trying.
"unaccompanied minors"...
Bergoglio ain’t gonna like this.
We could learn from Italy.
They’re just a hop, skip and jump from Cannes! Perfect. Incoming!
American lawmakers and law enforcers, are you listening?
If this happened in the US, some lib judge would rule that the ship could dock. All those poor children, stuck on that ship. What a shame.
Along with 506 accompanying adults.
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