Italy shuts ports to rescue boat with 629 migrants on board
Source: Reuters/The Guardian
Italy will refuse to let a humanitarian boat carrying more than 600 migrants dock at any of its ports and has asked the Mediterranean island of Malta to open its doors to the vessel, an official said on Sunday.
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The move by Italy’s new interior minister, Matteo Salvini, who is also head of the far-right League, is part of efforts to make good on his electoral promises to halt the flow of migrants into the country.
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The Aquarius is operated by the charity SOS Méditerranée, which said on Twitter earlier on Sunday that it had taken on board 629 migrants, including 123 unaccompanied minors, 11 other children and seven pregnant women.
The charity said the passengers, mainly sub-Saharan Africans, were picked up in six different rescue operations off the coast of Libya and included hundreds who were plucked from the sea by Italian naval units and then transferred to the Aquarius.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/10/italy-shuts-ports-to-rescue-boat-with-629-migrants-on-board
Malta says it's nothing to do with them. And since Malta has an area of just 122 square miles and a population of 400,000, it's not able to take many migrants anyway.
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Sad that people fear so much today. Yet in knowing history as I do, we as a race of beings, the human race, have been slaughtering and hating on each other since our inception on this ball of dirt. We have and the power elite has done this evil from our hearts and minds for power, control and resources. Sometimes just because our hearts are full of hate. Other times fearing the colour or culture of another.
This Deja Vu.
It seems we are heading to a very bad place, again, with these racist, bigoted, fascist leaders running countries, ameriKKKa included.
