Friday - August 01, 2008
Boat migrants swamp Italian island .
Maybe they’re trying to reach the USA so they can all vote for Rama-Lama may a pest be upon him.
Even among primitives like these folks, word travels fast. If more of these life forms were shot on site, europe would have less of a problem then it does because the word would go out. But no. They’ll be allowed to stay and guess who gets the privilege of supporting these ,,,, these ,,,, people?
A tiny Italian island was described as “on its knees” after more than 800 migrants arrived by boat from Africa in 24 hours.
By Nick Pisa in RomeThe migrants, all from Africa, arrived on Lampedusa, south of Sicily, pushing its services to breaking point. Government officials said the huge influx underlined the need to issue a state of emergency over the problem of illegal immigration which has become a key concern of the new Italian government.
The island’s mayor, Bernardino De Rubeis, said: “Lampedusa is on its knees and we need an urgent visit from the interior minister Roberto Maroni, so he can see the dilemma we face.
“The time has come for this to stop and for a solution to this problem to be found once and for all, the needs of the people of Lampedusa are being forgotten.
“We have seen a 30 per cent drop in tourism and we have also down to just one daily flight between the island and Lampedusa and we have other pressing problems such as drainage and sanitation which are not being dealt with.”
He added that by the weekend he expected the number of illegal immigrants on the island to be 1,500 - more than double the capacity of the island’s holding centre.
Lampedusa’s deputy mayor, Angela Maravento of the xenophobic Northern League, said she would start a hunger strike on a dinghy moored in the harbour on Saturday.
Interior minister Roberto Maroni said: “Joint patrols of the sea off the coast of Libya with the Libyans will begin shortly and this will put an end to this. We are expecting a much quieter August.
“Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was in Libya a few days ago and met with Colonel Gaddafi and agreed these patrols which will cut back on this phenomenon.”
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