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Oh Jason...
Start looking at Sicily. It's better than you think. :)
Note: Roma = Romanians
ROME (Reuters) - Italian police announced on Thursday the arrest of hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants in a sign of the new right-wing government's determination to clamp down. Police arrested 383 people including 268 foreigners, with 53 immediately taken to the border for expulsion, in a week-long operation stretching from northern Italy to the Naples area.
Silvio Berlusconi swept back to power for a third term as prime minister last week promising to get tough on illegal immigrants, blamed by many for crime. He is readying new laws to screen immigrants and jail or expel those breaking the law. Those arrested came from Eastern Europe, Albania, Greece, North Africa and China and face charges ranging from illegal entry into Italy to prostitution, drug trafficking and robbery.
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Italy's new interior minister, Roberto Maroni from the anti-immigrant Northern League party, is rushing out emergency laws to bring back passport checks on Italy's EU borders, despite its membership of the Schengen passport-free zone. He also wants to make illegal immigration a jailable offense and speed up the deportation process.
The League made strong gains in national and local elections last month and is imposing tough measures to control immigrants in many northern cities. Its leader, Umberto Bossi, who often uses violent anti-immigrant rhetoric, said regarding the events in Naples: "People do what the political class can't manage."
"This operation against illegal immigrants is good because , it's what people want. They ask us for security and we have to give it to them," Bossi told reporters in parliament. In League-run Verona, Mayor Flavio Tosi said his city had the biggest Romanian community in Italy. "There are 7,000 of them, working as builders, artisans and domestics. And they themselves say the Roma are a problem," he said.
Damnnnnnn. Maybe we can ship them to Texas to live with Whip.
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