Sunday,
August 17, 2008
The
ANNOTICO Report
BBC
News,
By David Willey |
August
15, 2008
The number of
illegal immigrants entering
The figures come
in spite of a government crackdown on crime and an increase in the number of
deportations.
More than 15,000
illegal immigrants entered the EU via
Many illegal
immigrants arrive on boats organised by people
traffickers.
Mr Maroni, whose Northern
League party formed part of the right-wing government coalition, has campaigned
strongly against clandestine immigration.
Most of the
illegal immigrants come across the Mediterranean Sea from
Italian Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi has launched a crackdown
on crime, which most Italians associate with illegal immigration.
He brought in
stringent new measures making it an offence punishable by up to four years jail
to enter the country illegally.
Prisons full
Expulsions have
increased by 15% so far this year but the Italian authorities often find the
countries of origin of illegal arrivals reluctant to accept them back if they
are deported.
Two weeks ago the
authorities began deploying troops in joint anti-crime patrols with police in
some of
Thirty-three
non-EU nationals have been arrested so far.
Some 20,000
people out of the 55,000 prisoners currently serving sentences or awaiting
trial in Italian jails are foreigners.
The number of
these foreign prisoners continues to increase because of the expense and
difficulty of executing expulsions ordered by the judiciary.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/europe/7564584.stm
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