Some 800 illegal immigrants arrive on Italian island in 24 hours
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Around 400 illegal immigrants flocked onto the Italian island of Lampedusa, bringing to more than 800 the number of boat-people landing on the tiny Mediterranean outpost in a 24-hour period, a coastguard official said.
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Italy has defended a tough new policy on illegal immigrants, which has put hundreds of new arrivals from sub-Saharan Africa on planes back to Libya without granting them the opportunity to apply for asylum.
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Palermo, Sicily Almost 800 illegal immigrants arrived in southern Italy aboard only three boats Sunday in one of the largest influxes of refugees that Italy has seen in a single day.
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Almost 900 African migrants reached the Canary Islands on Tuesday, a record number for a single day.
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ROME Huge numbers of migrants from Africa have showed up in rickety boats on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa in the last few days, and the government is responding quickly and contentiously, sending most of them back to Libya, almost immediately, by
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Illegal immigrants in Italy earning a few  coins by washing windscreens at traffic lights could face up to  three months in jail after Florence launched a crackdown and  other cities said they might follow suit.
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More than 100 undocumented asylum seekers claiming to be Palestinians rest after being rescued by the Italian Coast Guard off Sicily 21 August 2004 in the harbour of the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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More migrants arrive on Italy's Lampedusa island as PM Berlusconi prepares for migration talks in Libya.
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African migrants whose small boat was intercepted Saturday off the coast of Sicily said eight people died during their grueling, 10-day trip, the third deadly sea journey by migrants trying to reach Italy in less than a month.
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After more than 250 migrants were intercepted trying to reach the Canary Islands in a 24-hour period, Spain's interior minister said Thursday that more European help is needed to stop the surge in illegal immigrants from Africa.
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Italian police have apprehended more than 650 illegal immigrants in southern Italy in what is reported to be one of the largest daily influxes of third world migrants.
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A new 24-hour record tally of 900 illegal migrants reached the Canary Islands, fuelling growing public discontent, as ministers met a visiting European Commissioner to discuss how to stem the immigrant tide.
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Boats carrying more than 400 migrants have been intercepted off Lampedusa over the past 48 hours, overwhelming the tiny island south of Sicily, local authorities said.
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Italy is urging Libya to tackle the swelling flow of illegal migrants as hundreds more land on Italian shores.
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By Erika Beras, The Miami Herald  Jan. 31--EIGHTEEN MIGRANTS -- 17 men and a woman -- were found this morning on Monument Island, within site of the Coast Guard station at Government Cut.   It was not clear how they had gotten there.
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A 15-metre long wooden vessel containing some 240 migrants docks at the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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ROME When a 9-year-old Somali girl named Asma arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa in a rickety boat full of illegal immigrants earlier this year, she was in shock.