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Theresa Maggio

Sicily

40,000 immigrants to Sicily this year, 4,000 arrived just this week.

July 19, 2015
Tags: immigrants, refugees, sicily, overcrowded, sent away, mediterranean, Africa, Italy, pushback laws, rejected, Palermo, too much, too many
Immigrants at sea overloading an inflatable raft, no life jackets, no belongings, just the clothes they wear, a slim document and a cell phone if they are lucky.
The most recent arrivals have been turned away and sent to Sardinia and Calabria because Sicilian immigrant "reception" centers, where immigrants are housed and fed while their fates are decided-- accepted as refugee or sent back to Africa -- are overcrowded and not up to the job of accepting or deferring waves of thousands of arrivals.  Read More 
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