Italy Seeks to Use Forces to Halt Illegal Immigrants From Tunisia
ROME — Italy’s interior minister said Sunday that the country hoped to send its armed forces to Tunisia to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants, after more than 3,000 Tunisians arrived by boat on an Italian island in recent days. “I will ask Tunisia’s foreign minister for authorization for our forces to intervene in Tunisia to block the influx,” Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said in an Italian television interview on Sunday, a day after the Italian cabinet declared a state of humanitarian emergency and called for help from the European Union. With thousands of miles of hard-to-patrol coastline, Italy faced waves of immigrants from North Africa…
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Italy Seeks to Use Forces to Halt Illegal Immigrants From Tunisia
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