ROME (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Over the last 24 hours, about 1,200 undocumented unauthorised migrants have come to Italy, say the authorities.
The migrants, who are from numerous countries in the Middle East and Africa, made it to various ports of Sicily.
674 people were reportedly saved from an overcrowded fishing boat along with five dead bodies found off the coast of Calabria.
522 more people who were rescued from about 15 boats were sent to Lampedusa on Saturday.
The boats had left from Libya and Tunisia. Lampedusa is one of the main entry points for the people who are looking to get to Europe.
Migrants from Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Somalia and Sudan were among the saved ones.
The media in Italy reports that a drastic rise in landings over the course of the previous few weeks has overwhelmed the immigration centre of the island. The Ansa news agency reports that at present, 1,184 people are being kept at the centre which is much above its capacity of 350 people.
Among the most riskiest paths for undocumented migration is the Mediterranean. The northwest Atlantic and the Mediterranean were a place of refuge to 3,231 people who were either dead or missing in 2021, says the reports of the United Nations High High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Many of them attempting the dangerous journey do so on improvised makeshift boats provided by human traffickers, which are frequently abandoned in the middle of the sea upon the failure of the boats.
The landings happen before a hotly contested election in Italy, where polls predict that the far-right Brothers of Italy have good chances of winning enough seats to take the reins of the right-learning coalition.
The leader of the party, Giorgia Meloni, has promised to limit the migration. She has already fired up discussion by appealing for a besiegement of the coast of Libya to prevent human traffickers from launching their boats toward the coast of Italy.
