Posted on 10/10/2013 12:32:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso’s trip to the Italian island of Lampedusa began with boos and shouts of “shame” and “murderers” from some of the residents, TV footage has shown. In the meantime, lawmakers prepared to re-examine the EU’s border surveillance systems. EurActiv France reports.
Barroso, EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano paid a visit yesterday (9 October) to Lampedusa, the small Italian island near the coast of which some 270 immigrants drowned in a shipwreck last week. …
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If the “immigrants” didn’t try to sneak into the country illegally, they wouldn’t have drowned. Actions have consequences.
Lampedusa hosts an “immigrant reception center”. If they were going in that way, they were going in openly rather than “sneaking”. The EU encourages this, although unofficially.
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