Monday 29 December 2008

500 more immigrants arrive in Italy

More than 500 illegal immigrants arrived on Italian shores Sunday as opposition lawmakers attacked Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition government for failing to tackle the problem.

Some 253 illegally entered the country on Sunday morning by arriving on the southern island of Lampedusa, with a further 300 arriving on the neighbouring island of Linosa later in the day.

"The government's strategy on illegal immigration has been a miserable failure," said Marco Minniti, a senior figure inside the Democratic Party. Read more

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