Posted on 08/30/2009 6:04:22 PM PDT by blueglass
Italian coastguards on Sunday turned back a boatload of 75 migrants off the coast of the island of Sicily, news agency ANSA reported.
The migrants, thought to be Somali, were travelling in a rubber dinghy which was intercepted by coastguards around 44 kilometres (27 miles) from the shores of the Italian island.
The group, which included 15 women and three children, was transferred to a an Italian police patrol boat and sent back immediately for Libya.
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"The group, which included 15 women and three children, was transferred to a an Italian police patrol boat and sent back immediately for Libya."
"the boat was spotted in Maltese waters by a helicopter from Frontex, a European mission set up to combat illegal migration, an army spokesman said..."
Let me get this straight... their ARMY immeadiately sends people back??!! Oh be still my heart...
Were these folks sent back in the same leaky boat used for the start of the journey? If so, bravo!
The Coast Guard used to intercept Haitian boat people and send them back. I don’t know if they still do.
Ok I get it - we should send all the illegals caught
to Libya. Right....?
Who, after the recent hard line anti-illegal immigration law was passed, said Italians don't want to live in a multi-ethnic country. Italy for the Italians and all that...
Rather un-PC
“(And we don’t do this because...?)”
We do this at the border. We don’t use local police to do that once inside the border because local police are empowered to enforce immigration laws.
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