Illegal immigrants who have landed on the shores of Italy so far this year they have exceeded 100,000, more than double those registered in the same period of 2022, according to official data updated today by the Ministry of Interior.
From January 1, 2023 to this August 16 they have reached the Italian shores 101,386 immigrantsmore than double the 48,940 that did so in the same period of the previous year and almost triple that of 2021, when 34,556 landings were recorded.
The immigrants who reached the southern shores of Italy from the north of Africa come from Guinea (12,040), Ivory Coast (11,888), Egypt (7,821), Tunisia (7,814), Bangladesh (6,912), Pakistan (6,173), Burkina Faso (5,623), Syria (4,258) and Cameroon (3,470).
A boy and his mother are rescued in the Mediterranean Sea
In addition, 10,286 are unaccompanied minors, a lower figure than last year, when they amounted to 14,044.
The government of Giorgia Meloniwho came to power in October last year campaigning, among other things, promising tougher management of immigration, is facing his first summer facing this phenomenon, aggravated by good sea conditions and the crisis in Tunisia.
Many come to the island of lampedusathe southernmost Italian enclave, saturating its only primary reception center, and this weekend more than 3,000 were welcomed on the island of Sicily.
Thus, the Government has announced that it will increase the immigrant expulsions as of September with the approval of a decree aimed at strengthening them.
The Italian left has criticized the government coalition, made up of the parties brothers from italy and the leagueof Meloni and Matteo Salvinirespectively, and the conservative Forza Italy.
“They shout closed ports, the bargain is over and the Italians come first, but the right is demonstrating a manifest incapacity in managing immigration,” attacked the president of the Democratic Party (P.S), Stefano Bonaccini.
