Posted on 06/11/2018 9:54:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A ship carrying more than 600 rescued migrants, including 123 unaccompanied minors and seven pregnant women, remained stranded in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday after Italy's new populist government refused to allow it to dock the day before, in a move described by rescuers as unprecedented.
Matteo Salvini, Italy's hardline interior minister and leader of the anti-immigration League party, called on the country to "close the ports" and pledged Sunday to "STOP the filthy business of illegal immigration."
Supplies on the ship are beginning to run low and a number of people are in need of medical treatment, including 15 with serious chemical burns and several others suffering from hypothermia, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which operates the rescue ship Aquarius alongside SOS Méditerranée.
Spanish President Pedro Sanchez announced Monday afternoon that the ship and its passengers would be welcome in the port of Valencia.
"It is our obligation to help avoid a humanitarian catastrophe and offer 'a safe harbor' to these people, thus complying with obligations of International law," he said in a statement.
Salvini took to social media within minutes to celebrate the news. "VICTORY! 629 migrants on board of Aquarius ship, Spain-bound, our first goal has been reached!" he wrote on Facebook.
However, it is currently unclear whether such a move is possible as the Aquarius is obliged to obey the commands of the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC), an arm of the government-controlled Italian Coast Guard.
It is also unclear whether the ship has enough fuel and supplies for the roughly 800-mile journey to Valencia.
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Board the ship.
Disable the engine.
Tow it back to Libya.
Run it ashore.
Scuttle it.
Let the refugees figure out how to get themselves home.
Sink the next one.
End of problem.
This crap has been going for like 10 years in Italy.
You would think the Spanish would know better.
Spain lived under the Muslim boot for what 600 or 800 years.
How soon they forget. How soon will they relive it?
Never is brought up is it!!!!!??????
If the Italian govt would start impounding these so called rescue ships for human trafficking, this nonsense would come to a screeching halt.
All of the hand-wringing and screams of outrage that we’re hearing about this are predicated on the assumption that Italy (and the rest of the developed world) somehow owes entry and eventually citizenship to all comers. Both the US and many European countries are starting to elect governments who are willing to do the obvious and challenge the nonsensical notion that all can enter (and stay).
Africa is a continent, not a nation. It has not central government.
The muslim conquest of Europe was stopped dead in Spain, but I guess that was back when Spanish males were actually men.
Like far too many males in positions of power, they no longer know how to fight or to make decisions based on fact not emotion.
I just finished a book about Andrew Jackson. That was a man for you. Lots of parallels between him and Trump.
It is time for Saudi Arabia to do its Islamic duty of charity by taking in ALL Islamic refugees.
The Saudi Kingdom has to import labor anyway. It’s a win-win-win.
GO HOME AND MAKE YOUR CRAPHOLE COUNTRY BETTER!
Tattoo “Return To Sender” on their foreheads.
It's so much easier for them to lecture non-Muslim countries about why WE need to take in the Muslim refugees (where they can be radicalized in Saudi-funded Islamic Study Centers and Wahabbi mosques). It's similar to Mexico's attitude towards Central American refugees - they'll get passage, but only if they wind up America's problem rather than Mexico's.
Spots like this are the front lines. Their government has long been a corrupt, globalist shambles. Yet, people still believe in their culture and nationality. It’s encouraging to see this sort of thing over there.
Spain should know better than most the dangers of this invasion.
Is History still being taught?
Wonderful news! Send them back!
For a long time, I hoped that while the elite of most countries were committed to globalism, there was enough of a patriotic core among the population who could break through in spite of a corrupt election system to eventually restore sanity.
While there have been some disappointments (such as LePen's poor showing in France after years of the National Front building momentum, as well as Angela Merkel's persistence in Germany), there have been many positive developments as well: Trump's victory here, Brexit in the UK, Orban in Hungary, Kurz in Austria, and now a populist coalition in Italy that includes nationalists. Maybe it isn't too late to turn back the tide of internationalism and mass immigration.
They need to criminally prosecute the NGOs complicit in this. Where the illegal aliens go slightly off shore, radio for help, then get tugged into the EU as a “rescue” so they don’t have to bother with any type of permission.
That is a good thing. Why? It sends a signal to the illegal “refugee” trade from Africa and the criminal games running it that Italy will end the use of it’s shores for that enterprise. That will get back to the wannabee “refugees” and their numbers will start declining.
Yep, that glaring 'undersight' leaps right off the page at ya, ehh ?
CNN is truly the enemy.
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