South African Press Agency, Sept. 22, 2009
Italy’s government has “no intention” of halting the deportation to Libya of would-be immigrants intercepted in international waters, a senior government official said on Tuesday.
Interior undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano, during a parliament briefing, brushed off criticism of Italy’s controversial deal with Libya to “push-back” migrants attempting to reach Italian shores from the North African nation.
The European Commission, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and US-based group Human Rights Watch have all recently expressed concerns over the policy.
Critics accuse Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government of violating international accords by deporting would-be migrants to Libya before ascertaining whether they are political refugees and thus eligible for asylum in Italy.
From May 6—when the Rome-Tripoli pact came into effect—to August 30, Italy has returned 757 would-be immigrants to Libya, Mantovano said.
Never denied asylum
But he insisted that Italian authorities “have never denied” intercepted migrants the right to ask for asylum.
Each operation to escort migrants back to Libya lasted more than 10 hours during which none of the people involved, asked to be recognised as refugees, nor did they say they were fleeing from persecution in their countries of origin, Mantovano said.
Stressing how migrant landings have decreased by 94% since the “push-back” policy came into effect, Mantovano implied it has helped saved lives by deterring people from attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing.
Mantovano also referred to specific criticism from the UNHCR, and the fact that many of the would-be migrants come from war-ravaged or unstable countries in the Horn of Africa.
“I think it is out of place (for the UN) to have done nothing to prevent these situations, especially in Somalia and Eritrea, and then to expect that Italy alone should solve the problem,” he said.
As for criticism within the European Union of which Italy is a member, Mantovano said Italy would continue to “defend its sovereignty”.
“Evidently it suited some other European country that Italy would serve as Port of Europe,” he said, adding that “since the ‘push-backs’” the number of migrant landings in Spain has increased.
Original article
(Posted on September 24, 2009)
Comments
Good for Italy. Let the “human rights” groups scream and yell all they want. So what? It won’t change the price of toothpaste in Milan.
We just got back from a vacation in Europe. I have to ask if Italy is so tough on immigration then why in Rome are there so many Africans harassing tourists and peddling shoes and handbags on the sidewalk and dirty swarthy looking children begging for money? They need to just go out in the streets and stop every non-European looking person and ask for ID. Anyone not able to comply should be locked up awaiting deportation. Some of them probably deserve a Rodney King forget me not as a keepsake. If it gets any worse it will ruin Italy’s tourist trade.
The Italians are incredibly kind and thoughtful people. We all know that Diversity is our Greatest Strength (TM), that every region requires a diverse workforce to meet the global challenges of the 21st Century, that North Africa is mired in poverty, and that immigration is necessary for economic growth.
Yet, in spite of all of the great advantages of diversity and immigration, Italy’s first thought is not for themselves, but for their neighbors and friends across the Mediterranean Sea. By exporting Diversity to North Africa, Italy sacrifices its own interests to build Diversity and Multiculturalism in North Africa! If only the rest of Europe and America were as altruistic, we could quickly turn all the Third World nations into Diverse, Multicultural Paradises, with enough workforce to take care of the old people. Please join Italy in supporting Multicultural parity for the Third World. End the Diversity-Gap NOW! It is inexcusable that only First World nations should benefit from Diversity; we need to share!
As far as I’m concerned, the only developed, modern society on earth with a sane policy towards immigrants and “asylum-seekers” is Japan - they accept virtually none!
http://www.refugees.org/countryreports.aspx?id=966
The West is disappearing under a rising tide of crime-prone, low-IQ “immigrants” whose sole purpose in coming here is to leech off of us…and then supplant us! We are living in “The Camp of the Saints.” In the meantime, the Japanese are busy developing robots to “do the work the Japanese won’t do.”
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/robotics/2008-03-01-robots_N.htm
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=100425&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=MostWatchedVideos&videoChannel=2602
When Italy’s immigration policy matches that of Japan (if in fact that ever happens), then I’ll applaud them. Until then, all I can say is, this is a start in the right direction.
“When Italy’s immigration policy matches that of Japan (if in fact that ever happens), then I’ll applaud them. Until then, all I can say is, this is a start in the right direction.”
I would hope you would do more than just applaud. Forgive me for pointing this out, but the tone of your comment is not at all useful to our cause. We already know that we are being overrun (hence my moniker) and are now hopefully in the stages of a mass awakening and a subsequent correction.
It’s unfair to compare a European country to Japan, which did not have the same debilitating intellectual developments as post-war Europe. Post-modernism, holocaust guilt, feminism et al. come from a uniquely western way of thought.
If trends in White countries continue and accelerate we may very well get a Japan style immigration law. It happened in 1924. Granted that we are in much worse shape on all fronts than then. But this means that our reaction is building up to be something much greater than then, and more positive.
Mike from not-Queens wrote at 10:37 AM on September 25:
“I would hope you would do more than just applaud. Forgive me for pointing this out, but the tone of your comment is not at all useful to our cause.”
Forgive me if the last 40 years of my life has left me cynical. Point of fact: I’ve probably done a lot more for “our cause” than most of the people who post here, including run for political office, so I think I’ve earned the right to be cynical.
“It’s unfair to compare a European country to Japan, which did not have the same debilitating intellectual developments as post-war Europe.”
You think the Japanese did not have to contend with “debilitating intellectual developements” after WW2 such as feminism? Read up on the place, sometime.
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521820189
As for war guilt, the Japanese have had to contend with angry Chinese and Koreans, still furious over their treatment by Japanese conquerors during the war. The Japanese response has been to largely ignore them, but that’s because the Japanese have been wise enough to refuse to allow large numbers of non-Japanese into their country in the first place (unlike White countries). THAT and that alone is the reason the Japanese are in much better shape than us.
“If trends in White countries continue and accelerate we may very well get a Japan style immigration law. It happened in 1924. Granted that we are in much worse shape on all fronts than then. But this means that our reaction is building up to be something much greater than then, and more positive.”
I heard the exact same thing during the salad days of my youth in the “movement,” and I’ll tell you the same thing I told people back then: you’re dreaming. All that’s “building” is disorganized White resentment over the disconcerting realization we as a race have already been marginalized in our own country. Nobody’s doing anything about it, because every White’s afraid to use the dreaded “R” word, and make no mistake about it: our enemies know it!
http://www.issues-views.com/index.php?print=1&article=1104
Until people do choose to do something about it, until White racialists stop waiting for “the other guy” and start “coming out of the closet” in droves and demand their elected representatives start passing laws protecting OUR interests, the process will invariably continue, until our own eventual extinction, a la Rhodesia and South Africa.
“Until people do choose to do something about it, until White racialists stop waiting for “the other guy” and start “coming out of the closet” in droves and demand their elected representatives start passing laws protecting OUR interests, the process will invariably continue, until our own eventual extinction, a la Rhodesia and South Africa.”
I totally agree with you. If we did organize something FBI ADL ACLU $PLC provacatuers would be all over us. Some of us would be entrapped. We would end up like the Weaver family.
The important thing is to focus all our attention on the Judiciary. They are the head of the monster that is destroyiing us.
