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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What took so long? The ships should be torpedoed.
It is not a rescue ship. It is invasion. Shoot it.
they don’t belong in Italy or elsewhere...they need to go home...they are not the same culture, the same education, the same morals, the same character....let alone the same religion...let alone the same race...
That’s where they came from. Give them just enough gas to get back
Salvini is going to be vilified and escoriated by the media and the leftist. Hopefully he has what it takes to stick to his guns. He’s a big fan of Trump, so he may.
“...to deport half a million illegal migrants from Italy.” Sweet.
I heard he told Salvini to forget about campaigning in Wisconsin!
Oh wait...
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