Posted on 09/14/2019 11:33:56 PM PDT by aquila48
Italy’s new left-leaning government has allowed a rescue vessel carrying 82 migrants to come ashore on the island of Lampedusa, after nearly a week at sea.
Many of those on board the Ocean Viking, operated by charities SOS Méditerranée and Doctors Without Borders, are expected to be relocated to other countries, with Germany and France each pledging to take 25 percent of the passengers.
Italy’s foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio, stressed that the move did not herald the return of an “open ports” policy. But it represents a sea change from the hardline stance of the previous coalition government between Di Maio's 5Star Movement and Matteo Salvini's far-right League party.
The new government, composed of the 5Stars and the center-left Democratic Party, took office earlier this month.
Italy’s culture minister, Dario Franceschini, tweeted that the move marked the “end of Salvini’s propaganda on the backs of desperate people at sea. Politics and good international relations are back to tackle and solve the migration problem."
The U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, also welcomed the news as “a positive development!” He tweeted: “Hopefully this is a further step towards urgently needed, predictable disembarkation arrangements supported by a number of European countries.”
Ahead of an EU ministerial meeting in Malta later this month, the French and German interior ministers, Christophe Castaner and Horst Seehofer, both called for renewed efforts to agree a temporary EU-wide mechanism for distributing rescued migrants.
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Once Africa gets emptied out into Europe maybe the few remaining whites who have a shred of backbone can move south and Make Africa Great Again.
A chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link. So it doesn’t matter how tough a government is concerning illegal immigration. Sooner or later a liberal will take power. Then everything unravels.
By the way, I am in favor of Trump’s border wall. But sooner or later some liberal will take the White House. Then that wall is gone.
Democrat everyday citizens don’t like illegals invading our country either.
Blonde woman welcoming her future rapists.
Horrible. The whole “rescue” thing is a scam.
Are you sure?
Beto more or less said the wall is coming down if he gets to the White House. I guess with any next Democrat it will be halted.
As long as Italy refuses to put its financial house in order, the EU will have a hold over Italy.
Government Inc. needs customers.
Yep. Liberals will take down the walls. Muslims are beginning to take power. Congress changing 200-year rule for one Muslim. Tragic and will get worse.
It's not a 'migration problem' you myopic fools, it's an invasion problem.
By the way, I am in favor of Trump’s border wall. But sooner or later some liberal will take the White House. Then that wall is gone.
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That’s why statutory changes are more important than the wall — a President cannot unilaterally repeal a statute.
That’s why statutory changes are more important than the wall — a President cannot unilaterally repeal a statute.I hope you aren't waiting for some Republicans to come along and do that. They had their chances and blew it with Paul Ryan
The only ones willing to make statutory changes are the Democrats and they'll have enough "bipartisan" support to pull it off too.
Trump knows that, that's why he's using the only tools he has available to him...he's/we've been betrayed by Republicans too often on to many issues.
So Italy has surrendered to the Islamic invasion. Good bye Italy. Isn’t it ironic the only countries that aren’t surrendering to the invasion are the former countries that were invaded by the Communists?
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