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Boat Migrants Down 80 Percent in Populist Italy, up 350 Percent in Socialist Spain |
2018-08-02 |
[BREITBART] The number of migrant sea arrivals in populist Italia, so far in 2018, is down 80 percent compared to last year, whilst surging by over 350 percent in the same period in socialist Spain. Over 57,500 illegal ![]() by sea so far this year, compared to 112,375 over the same period last year, the UN Migration Agency said in a paper Tuesday. And as the number of clandestine crossings fell, deaths in the Mediterranean Sea more than halved, falling from 2,240 to 1,111. The significant fall is likely to be partly thanks to Italia’s new, populist government, which is fighting to end illegal crossings and to protect their borders. There were just 18,392 However, ars longa, vita brevis... Spain, which has a new socialist government, has become the new main arrival-by-sea country in the Mediterranean. More than 22,800 |
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