Posted on 03/11/2019 10:08:10 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
In the first two months of this year, only 262 seaborne migrants reached Italy, compared with more than 13,000 during the same period in 2017
... hard-line tactics, including in one case keeping 177 migrants docked on a ship for five days, have prompted prosecutors to investigate him for allegedly kidnapping migrants.
Mr. Salvini helped deliver the coup de grace. Last summer, he repeatedly closed Italian ports to aid groups’ vessels ferrying rescued migrants. Nongovernmental organizations mostly stopped their rescue missions at sea. Some had already ceased operations after refusing to abide by obligations imposed by the previous Italian government.
...“I urge all Egyptians not to cross illegally,” says an Egyptian man who appears in a video posted on Facebook in September, sitting in the sand with others detained by Libyan border guards. “Otherwise you’ll go through what we went through. Three days in the desert without food or drink.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Someone is doing it right. Well, he and Orban, for now. Hopefully the trend will catch on.
Anyway someone can post the article without having to subscribe to the rag that is the WSJ?
Post the URL on Outline.com
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Thanks folks
Most heartwarming story of the day (so far).
Working for the clampdown!
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