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An NGO migrant “taxi” ship has been fined 10,000 euros and placed into administrative detention for 20 days for violating a security decree enacted by the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Three migrants died and 16 others were rescued after a dinghy transporting them from the nearby coast of Turkey hit rocks in high winds.

The bodies of eight migrants and 42 survivors have been recovered in the central Mediterranean off the island of Lampedusa, ANSA reported.

Italy has seen a total of 3,862 illegal arrivals in over two weeks so far this year, more than the same period in 2021 and 2022 combined. 

Italian leftists are furious over Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni directing NGO migrant “taxi” ships to drop off migrants in cities run by leftist mayors.

NGOs operating migrant “taxi” ships have complained to the European Union about new Italian border controls, but the bloc has claimed it will not get involved.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has called on migrant taxi NGOs to stop their “ferry service” in the Mediterranean. 

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has announced that the new decree to regulate migrant taxi NGOs will not come into force until early next year.

The number of illegals landing is past 100,000 for the first time since 2017, as the government struggles to deal with waves of boats.

A migrant taxi NGO has stated that new regulations from the Italian governmentmay cause NGOs to halt their activity in the Mediterranean. 

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has slammed France and Germany for taking 95 of the nearly 94,000 migrants who have arrived in Italy this year. 

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni is said to be considering backing a “Marshall Plan” for Africa as a long-term solution to halt migration flows.

Migrant taxi NGO ships dropped off over 500 in Italy over the weekend, despite promises from PM Giorgia Meloni to halt their activity. 

Frontex claimed activities of migrant taxi NGO ships in the Mediterranean act as a pull factor for migrants considering the deadly journey. 

Commission announces an “Action Plan” to stem illegals crossing the Med, prompting migrant taxi NGOs to complain it would criminalise them.

Just two of the 17 NGO migrant “taxis” operating in the Mediterranean Sea are certified as search and rescue vessels, despite all claiming they engage in “rescue” operations.

The Italian Interior Minister is considering confiscating the ships of migrant taxi NGOs as part of a new security decree.

A people smuggler allegedly bragged to an undercover journalist that he is in contact with migrant taxi NGOs operating in the Mediterranean.

Just under two-thirds of Italians support the immigration policies of firebrand Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Top naval officer expressed support for a naval blockade in the Mediterranean to halt illegal migration to alleviate human suffering.

The NGO migrant “taxi” ship Ocean Viking has called on France, Spain, and Greece – but apparently no African or Middle Eastern countries – to find them a port to drop off over 200 migrants after Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi refused access to Italian ports.

The German-based migrant taxi NGO Sea-Watch has announced it is preparing to launch its fifth vessel to the Mediterranean.

Italy’s new Minister of the Interior has announced he will be looking to stop migrant taxi NGO ships ferrying illegal aliens to Italy, stating he will use the decrees previously enacted by populist Lega leader Matteo Salvini when he held the post.

The figures underline the ruthlessness of smugglers leading migrants to their deaths while making a fat profit out of human suffering.

Frontex, the European Union border agency, has announced that so far this year nearly 230,000 migrants have arrived illegally in the EU, the largest number since 2016.

Italian authorities arrested two Bangladeshi people smugglers accused of torturing migrants in Libya in order to get money from the migrants. 

A German migrant taxi NGO has claimed the EU has worked to allow Libyan authorities to return migrants to North Africa from EU waters. 

The fleet of migrant taxi NGOs operating in the Mediterranean sea has picked up and dropped off over 10,000 migrants in the EU this year. 

The body of a man allegedly shot and killed by people smugglers was found on a trafficker’s boat by a migrant taxi NGO.

Italy has seen over a thousand migrants arrive on Sicily Lampedusa in a day, once again overwhelming migrant reception centres.

Two Syrian children, aged just one and two years old, were found dead after dying of thirst aboard a people smuggler boat.

With illegal boat migrant landings happening in numbers equal to previous crisis peaks this month, it is estimated that as many as 100,000 could enter Italy by the end of 2022.

The number of illegal immigrants arriving in Italy is growing, with new figures showing over 50,000 illegals have entered the country so far this year as numbers have continued at a high rate so far in August.

The European Union is set to give Morocco around half a billion euros to help stem the tide of illegal immigration despite claims that the Moroccan government has relaxed surveillance of the Canary Island migrant route. The European Union and

The Italian Interior Ministry figures show that illegal migrant arrivals are up more than 40 per cent so far this year.

The Italian Interior Ministry has released new statistics showing that, since the start of 2022, over 45,000 migrants have illegally entered the country as new boat landings continue on Italian shores.