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Italy tightens laws against illegal immigration
The government in Italy intends to tighten legislation to tackle illegal immigration. A decision that can greatly affect immigration to Sweden. Among other things, human traffickers must be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison.
On February 26, 72 migrants drowned on the coast outside the small Italian town of Cutro in Calabria.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited the city, where she...
Italy bulldozes migrant shanty town after deadly fires
Hundreds of migrants were evicted this week from a make-shift migrant camp in southern Italy which has been the site of several deadly fires.
“As promised… we went from words to actions,” Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said, as bulldozers tore through the San Ferdinando shanty town in Calabria under the watch of 600 policemen.
Four migrants have died in the camp in the past year in either...
Italians Aghast as Immigrants Barbecue Dog at Welcome Center
Animal rights activists are up in arms over attempts to barbecue a dog at an immigrant welcome center in southern Italy, with migrants insisting the practice is normal where they come from.
Members of the Carabinieri, an Italian military police force, intervened immediately after receiving a call from an employee of the center who had witnessed the scene of a 29-year-old Nigerian man intent on roasting...
Immigrant Riot in Italy Leaves 37 Injured, Italians Fight Back
Violence broke out in southern Italy yesterday as hundreds of migrant workers, most of them Africans, went on a rampage in retaliation to two of their number being shot and three more beaten with iron bars by white youths.
Authorities reporting at least 37 were wounded in the ensuing clashes, including 18 police officers and five migrants, as the violence reached its second day in the coastal town...