ROME -- Italy and France agreed on Friday to carry out joint sea and air patrols to prevent Tunisian migrants from arriving in Italy, a move that appeared to ease tensions between them over how to contend with thousands of North African colonists who have landed in Italy since January. Do or become a ME muslim cesspool.
Italian officials boarded a boat filled with migrants in a port of the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Cede Lampedusa to Tunisia. Problem solved.
Thousands of North African migrants, mostly from Tunisia, have landed in Italy since January.
"We agreed on the need to develop a joint action between Italy and France on certain issues," Mr. Maroni said. He added that both countries would "take initiatives to block the departure of illegal migrants from Tunisia."
Since unrest began in Tunisia in December, leading to the overthrow of the president in January, more than 20,000 migrants have arrived on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa. But when the island became overwhelmed, Italy began moving them to District Nine makeshift tent camps on the mainland. Many have easily escaped by design and crossed the border into France.
The issue has underscored strains in the European Union over the application of the Schengen agreement, which loosens border controls among the union's 27 member nations, except Britain and Ireland. It also comes at a time when the domestic politics of both Italy and France are being shaped by parties with strong anti-immigrant agendas: the National Front in France and Italy's Northern League, of which Mr. Maroni is a member.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
