This week, thousands of migrants landed on Lampedusa, essentially doubling the small Italian island's population.
Young migrants wait in Lampedusa, Italy, for buses to take them to the port, where they will then take ships to mainland Italy.
This week, though, upwards of 8,000 people arrived — more people than live on the island. The migrants, children and many teenage boys among them, were forced to sleep curbside and turn to the local church or charitable local restaurants for bread, a dish of pasta and water. "When you make this type of trip, you take a risk," said Turay, a tall, slim engineering student who carefully enunciated each word. He said his father was killed in sectarian violence back home and that he wants to finish his studies in Europe so he can support his family.
At a conference in Budapest this week, Meloni said some legal migration could benefit Europe economically, but that it would not solve the crisis of the continent's low birth rate.
That said, the far right is in many ways continuing practices of previous governments of different political stripes. They include clampdowns on NGO rescue boats, impounding their vessels, tying them up in red tape, banning them from conducting multiple rescues and sending them to faraway ports for the disembarking of migrants.Until recently, most of the migrant boats left from Libya, but in the last several months, departures have shifted to Tunisia, the closest African country to Lampedusa.
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