The overcrowded migrant center on the Italian island of Lampedusa will be closed today, and about 1,200 refugees will move to three ships, where they will be quarantined for two weeks.
The Lampedusa refugee center, located about 100 kilometers off the Tunisian coast, has a capacity for only 100 people. But in recent weeks, several hundred migrants have arrived on the island every week.
The local authorities used to move them to Sicily, to which the island belongs and which also receives refugees from humanitarian ships. On Wednesday, 350 migrants, who boarded the humanitarian vessel Sea-Watch 4 after being saved from boats in the Mediterranean, arrived in Palermo.
The head of the Sicilian regional government, Sebastiano Musumeci, has repeatedly asked the government in Rome to help with the influx of refugees. Two weeks ago, he threatened to close migration centers in the region and issued a decree banning migrants from entering Sicily.
He justified the decree by saying that he could no longer ensure compliance with anti-coronavirus measures. Migration centers in Sicily are overcrowded, and dozens of refugees have fled from them this summer. However, Musumeci’s decree was suspended by a Palermo court following a complaint from the Italian government.
On Wednesday, Musumeci and Lampedusa Mayor Salvatore Martello met with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who promised government vessels to accommodate the migrants on Lampedusa as well as financial assistance.
The center in Lampedusa will be temporarily closed and renovated, bringing its capacity to 190 people, Martello said on Thursday. Before his talks with Conte, members of the Liga party, whose boss Matteo Salvini enforced a strict anti-immigration policy as interior minister last year, demonstrated in front of the parliament in Rome.
Salvini closed ports to NGO ships until other EU countries promised to take over the arriving migrants. That is why last year only 11,471 refugees arrived in Italy via the Mediterranean and 23,370 a year earlier, while in 2017, 119,369 migrants arrived.
According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, 19,340 migrants have arrived in Italy since January this year, of which 16,150 were in Sicily.
The Canary Islands have seen a fivefold influx of refugees this year, with more than 4,000 migrants coming ashore, according to UNHCR. On Wednesday, the local coast guard rescued 67 adult Africans from four boats, and on Tuesday, they rescued 39 refugees from two boats.
The leaders of the Canary Islands, who also urgently asked for help from the central Spanish government in August, are being criticized by humanitarian organizations for letting the migrants be quarantined on a cargo ship in unfavorable conditions.
At least 409 migrants arrived in Britain via the English Channel on Wednesday, the DPA news agency reported on Thursday. According to the agency, it is a record number for one day, with the previous record being 235.
Warmer weather is now contributing to the larger wave of migration to Britain. This year, according to the DPA, more than 5,500 refugees arrived in Britain illegally from France, while 1,800 arrived in 2019 and only 300 a year earlier.
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Joe Biden, who claims he wants to fact-check Donald Trump in real time during the presidential debates, told a real whopper on Thursday during his visit to Kenosha.
“People fear that’s, which, that which is different. We gotta, for example, why in God’s name don’t we teach history in history classes? A black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison.”
Fact check: False.
Make no mistake about it, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Joe Biden presumably was referring to Lewis H. Latimer, a former slave who worked as a researcher under Edison, who, three years after Edison patented the incandescent light bulb, patented a more efficient way of manufacturing carbon filaments, which were used in Edison’s bulb design. Fake internet rumorshave been circulating for some time now suggesting that Latimer is the actual inventor of the light bulb and even the telephone.
Apparently, fake internet rumors are where Joe Biden gets his history lessons.
And the Left wonders why we don’t like them tearing down statues. When they’re not destroying history, they’re trying to rewrite it.
By Monica Showalter
How do you know a movement has caught fire?
When the symbols start appearing. Everyday symbols, placed preposterously, mockingly, giving a scandal a name and associating it with the tangible, the popular. It’s very effectively used in Latin America, where housewives in Chile started the practice, banging on pots and pans to protest the communist Allende-Castro puppet regime’s signature socialist food shortages. Coat hangers for abortion supporters, underwear for Clinton protesters — when it happens, it’s a popular movement that’s taken off.
And in this case, the instrument is blow dryers and curling irons, and the target is House speaker Nancy Pelosi, who turned up at an expensive San Francisco hair salon to get her hair done, not even wearing a mask, while everyone else had to stay home, and every salon had to legally remain shut, ostensibly out of fear of COVID, an old crisis that has since peaked. The unused blow dryers are now turning up in trees, as loony decorations, a tangible symbol to show that the public is outraged. And that’s one heck of a memorable protest.
After all, the rules that keep salons shut are not observed by the elites. Just little people have to play by those oppressive rules.
It’s the work of angry hairstylists, who have been forced to pay a disproportionate price for COVID, as have gyms, churches, small “nonessential” businesses, schools, restaurants, bars, and other small fry — and stay closed, pretty much forever, until the last COVID case goes away. There is no other plan put out by the blue states, and that’s effectively a death sentence on their businesses — for nothing. Most were never big spreaders, and all have options to lessen the risk of spread through masks and social distancing, but no matter — the tyrants order the businesses to stay shut — except in the case where some animals are more equal than others. Right, Nance?
It’s getting to be outrageous — and outrageous acts of oppression merit outrageous acts of protest. One can only hope Nancy Pelosi will be followed by blow dryer protests wherever she goes.
It’s fascinating that the hair salons are at the spearhead of this movement rather than other types of businesses, which are sure to follow. There have been incidents in Texas and Michigan where salon-owners and barbers have refused to close doors and triggered legal incidents. There’s the case of Brandon Straka, a hairdresser who has had enough of Democrat rage and founded a movement to get away from them called #WalkAway. Straka is gay, and there are many gay people in the trade. The gay movement in particular has been extremely good as the use of symbols — triangles, rainbow flags, equals signs… Now there’s the blow dryer rebellion. And hairdressers have been known to play pivotal roles in revolutions.
Let’s hope this one gets ever wilder and more impressive, forcing Pelosi and pals into ending their petty little satrapy of shutdowns.
In the wake of the violent attack on a priest and his brother during Holy Mass in the Berlin church of St. Joseph, a security service is to be set up there starting next Sunday. This is reported by the “Catholic News Agency” (KNA) with reference to the press spokesman of the diocese of Berlin, Stefan Förner. This should make clear that the archdiocese takes the incident seriously, said Förner.According to Förner, a security concept for the church already exists – but no security service was present during the attack last Sunday. The brother of the clergyman who was knocked down by an unknown person during the sermon, Mr. Holger Doetsch, had previously called for a security service in the churches in an interview with the newspaper Tagespost. The priest in question is an employee of the Apostolic Nunciature.When asked about his condition, Doetsch replied to the Tagespost: “Not good, you take that seriously. It has become deeply engraved in my mind.I was remembering the incidents of Taizé and the attack on Brother Roger and the murder of the French priest Jacques Hamel. According to his perception, it was “a planned attack on the church. And this must have consequences”.
As KNA further reports, the concern of the archdiocese of Berlin is the health of the priest concerned, his brother and the altar girl standing directly next to him, as well as the attendant faithful.”The visible physical consequences are – thank God – not serious for the attacked men, the uncertainty on the other hand, which the aggressor caused, will remain”, so diocese speaker Förner.St. Joseph’s Church is currently used as a replacement for St. Hedwig’s Cathedral, which is currently under reconstruction. Clergymen of the Pope’s embassy and the military bishop’s office regularly celebrate services in the Berlin Cathedral.
