Maybe he can bring a few to Babs' place..
Posted on 08/12/2019 2:44:36 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
ITALY’S SALVINI TELLS RICHARD GERE TO TAKE STRANDED MIGRANTS TO HOLLYWOOD ON HIS JET By Alessandro Speciale and Jeannette Neumann, Bloomberg, August 10, 2019:
Gere, NGO appeal to EU leaders to find port for marooned ship Ship with 160 rescued migrants has been barred entry in Italy Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini suggested Richard Gere fly 160 migrants stranded off the Italian coast back to Hollywood on his “private jet” after the actor made a plea to European leaders to find a port for the ship.
Gere joined representatives from the non-governmental organization Open Arms at a press conference on the Italian island of Lampedusa to appeal to take in the ship. Salvini has refused to allow the vessel into Italian waters, the latest episode highlighting Europe’s divisions over immigration.
“AS THE GENEROUS MILLIONAIRE AIRS HIS DEMANDS ABOUT THE FATE OF THE OPEN ARMS IMMIGRANTS, WE THANK HIM: HE WILL BE ABLE TO BRING EVERYONE IN HIS PRIVATE JET TO HOLLYWOOD AND KEEP THEM IN HIS VILLAS,” SALVINI SAID IN A STATEMENT AFTER GERE’S PRESS CONFERENCE.
Salvini has made a flagship policy of refusing to allow the migrant vessels, coming mostly from nearby North Africa, to enter Italian waters. Now in the first steps of a months-long electoral campaign, Salvini is likely to double down on the anti-immigrant rhetoric that’s made him Italy’s most popular politician for now.
SAFE HARBOR The migrants were rescued in international waters and have a right to safe harbor and to apply for asylum in Europe, Oscar Camps, founder of the Open Arms movement, said at the news conference. The vessel is floating in international waters near the island, which is located about half-way between Tunisia and the southern Italian coast.
Gere, 69, who went aboard the Open Arms vessel on Friday to deliver food and water, sat nearby and also called on European leaders to find a solution. The star of “American Gigolo” and “Pretty Woman” has a long history of social activism. “The most important thing,” Gere said aboard the vessel, is for the rescued migrants “to be able to get to a free port, to be able to get off the boats and get on land and start a new life.”
Malta has said it will accept 39 of the migrants, who were rescued Friday, but other European governments have refused to allow the rest to disembark, Camps said on Twitter.
SPAIN’S REFUSAL Salvini has dubbed the request to disembark a “provocation” that disregards the lives of the migrants and called on Spain, the country where the boat is registered, to take them in. Spanish authorities have refused, insisting it must disembark at the nearest port.
The Italian interior minister has also threatened to seize the ship, using newly acquired powers granted him by parliament just days before he pulled the plug on the shaky coalition with a populist ally and sought to force new elections.
Responding to Gere’s comments, Salvini said, “surely, he is impressed by the decisions that have been taken to bolster police and counter smugglers and criminals. Italy had been waiting for those measures for years.”
Speaking on the island on Saturday, Camps said: “No decree or fine will stop us from protecting people at sea.”
Ouch!
ITALY’S SALVINI TELLS RICHARD GERE TO TAKE STRANDED MIGRANTS TO HOLLYWOOD ON HIS JET By Alessandro Speciale and Jeannette Neumann, Bloomberg, August 10, 2019:
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Awesome. How does one say “White Supremacists” in Italian?
(Asking for a liberal)
LOL
Then where would his gerbils live?
Libya and Tunisia have safe harbours, why can’t they go there and start a new life?
Don’t let them find out that a broad section of Italy doesn’t think that being called Fascist is the worst thing in the world.
I wonder how you say “private jet” in Italian.
Preach it, Signore Salvini!
Libya and Tunisia have safe harbours, why can’t they go there and start a new life?
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I don’t know about Tunisia but Libya has an abundance of Muslims anxious to sell these African transients into internal slavery. But I DON’T CARE...send them back to Tunisia or Libya whence they embarked.
jet privato
Maybe he can bring a few to Babs' place..
”Richard Gere è incredulo per l’approvazione del Decreto Sicurezza Bis: sicuramente è colpito favorevolmente dalle scelte a favore delle forze dell’ordine e contro scafisti e criminali. L’Italia le attendeva da anni. In compenso, visto che il generoso milionario annuncia la sua preoccupazione per la sorte degli immigrati della Open Arms, lo ringraziamo: potrà portare a Hollywood, col suo aereo privato, tutte le persone a bordo e mantenerle nelle sue ville. Grazie Richard!”
HA!
good job, Salvini!
if there’s one thing I dislike MORE than the communist-nazi leftwing politics of some actors (and political hacks on the extreme left wing)
its how damnedly arrogant they are to shoot their big mouths off all the time about what other people should or should not do
its none of Gere’s business what immigration policy Italy has (unless he’s applying to move there!)
And ‘tard Gere says?
Open Arms
Open Society
Open Borders
Open Your Pocketbook
Jet privato
Bit of a letdown, huh?
CC
don’t forget to pay gerbill before boarding...
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