Italy extends detention periods for illegal immigrants

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The cabinet of far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has increased the detention time for migrants to be expelled from Italy from a maximum of 135 days to 18 months. teleSUR

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00:00 On Monday, Italy also extended the detention periods for illegal immigrants to deter arrivals

00:06 after record boat crossings from North Africa to Lampedusa Island saw the country's southernmost

00:11 tip overwhelmed.

00:12 The cabinet of far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni increased from a maximum of 135 days

00:17 to 18 months the detention time for migrants to be expelled from Italy in a message to

00:22 all of Africa.

00:23 Meloni has revealed that if they trust the smugglers to break Italian laws when they

00:27 arrive in Italy, they will be detained and then evacuated for the migration.

00:31 Specialist Alfonso Giordano, professor at the Luis University of Rome, said it is difficult

00:36 to guarantee the return of migrants.

00:38 Giordano also doubted that the extension of the time of detention would work as a deterrent.

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