Italy deports island immigrants
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Italy begins deporting immigrants directly from the island of Lampedusa, the first port of call for boats from North Africa.
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Hundreds of migrants from Africa in rickety boats have landed in the last few days on Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island, and the Italian government is responding quickly and contentiously, sending most of them ...
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Italy has begun airlifting migrants back to their point of departure after facilities on its southern outpost were swamped by hundreds of new arrivals.
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They are the hidden side of the government's stepped-up efforts to track down and deport illegal immigrants: Toddlers stranded at day care centers or handed over to ill-equipped relatives. Siblings suddenly left in charge of younger brothers and sisters.
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Foreign Corresp. Italy has pledged to keep sending would-be immigrants back to north Africa after more than 600 arrived in just a few hours on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, south-west of Sicily.
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Near death after days at sea, the African illegal immigrants had made it to Europe, but were too weak to step down the ship's gangplank. The scene last week was appalling but familiar &#151; more emaciated arrivals among the thousands risking death to reach Italy's lengthy coastline and, from there, prosperity in Europe.
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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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ROME About 400 illegal immigrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa overnight, officials said Thursday, the latest in a wave of landings that has angered the government.
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ederal and city officials said yesterday they had arrested scores of immigrants in New York City, who were facing possible deportation to their home countries because of their convictions in sex crimes.
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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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"If they don't give us a new school, I'll bring all the kids into the immigrants' camp and teach them there"  By Silvia AloisiLAMPEDUSA, Italy - The barbed wire has gone and the dormitories look basic but reasonably clean. Welcome to the new-look camp for immigrants on the island of Lampedusa.Two years ago the island, a major transit point for thousands of boat people seeking a better life in Europe, drew scathing criticism for the squalor and abuse of its overcrowded camp.That has now been revamped and will soon be replaced by a more spacious, air-conditioned site as Italy pledges a more humane approach in its fight against illegal immigration. Read more
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The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa is at the centre of the controversial expulsion of immigrants by Italian officials, reports the BBC's Mike Donkin.
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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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ROME -- Italy resumed the forced deportation of immigrants to Libya yesterday and denied the United Nations' refugee agency access to the would-be asylum seekers.
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A regional court in Italy rules that the deportation of a controversial Senegalese imam was illegal.
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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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Italy has come under fire for sending would-be asylum seekers back to Libya without granting them time to apply for refugee status.