Italy: Ship stalemate ends as Ireland, Albania and
the Catholic Church! agree to take the illegal migrants, by
Ann Corcoran 8/26/18.
“The next ship can turn
around and go back where it came from because our limit has been reached!” (Matteo
Salvini, unbowed)
See
my previous post on the stalemate
here. And once
again a photo worth a thousand words as anyone dealing with the migrants wears
protective clothing/masks. See here. Some of the migrants were found to
have Tuberculosis
Now
this from Reuters: Italy disembarks stranded migrants,
Salvini under investigation.
CATANIA,
Italy (Reuters) – Italy on Sunday disembarked all 150 migrants from a rescue
ship that had been docked for five days in a Sicilian port, ending the
migrants’ ordeal and a bitter stand-off between Rome’s anti-establishment
government and its European Union partners.
The migrants, mainly from Eritrea, had been stranded in the port of
Catania since Monday because the government refused to let them off the boat
until other EU states agreed to take some of them in.
This
is big! We should be telling the Catholic Church in America that they need to
spend their own money for the refugees they want to place in your towns and
cities.
Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Albania had offered to
accept 20 of the migrants and Ireland 20-25, while the rest
would be housed by Italy’s Catholic Church “at zero cost” to the Italian
taxpayer.
“The
church has opened its heart and opened its wallet,” Salvini, from the
right-wing League party, told supporters at a rally in Pinzolo in northern
Italy on Saturday evening. [LOL! will they be housed at the Vatican?—ed]
More than 650,000 people have reached Italian shores since 2014, and even though the numbers have
fallen steeply in the last year, Rome says it will not let any more rescue
ships dock unless the migrants are shared out around the EU.
“The
next ship can turn around and go back where it came from because our limit has
been reached,” Salvini said.
Endnote:
I’m very sad for Ireland.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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