Youngsters, little more then children, incarcerated and tried like adults, are being charged as 'smugglers' upon their arrival in Italy. While the real human traffickers remain in Libya. The Italian news agency ANSA has collected some of their stories.
Only about a third of all undocumented migrants who applied for stay permits under a decree passed in May 2020 have received their papers thus far, according to a group of NGOs calling for faster and easier regularizations.
InfoMigrants By ANSA Published on : 2021/04/30
Over 20 migrants rights organizations have sent a letter to the Italian government to ask for the withdrawal of a regulation which they claim hinders the regularization of migrants, harming those who want to emerge from invisibility.
A group of over 20 migrants rights groups has sent a letter to Italian Premier Mario Draghi and members of his government denouncing that a recent regulation approved on April 21 will hinder the regularization of migrants, penalizing those who want to become legal residents. Despite the strong delay with which applications for regularization are proceeding and the gravity of the situation that has ensued, the ministry of interior, with a circular (regulation) released on April 21, 2021, instead of favoring the emersion of over 200,000 people who have started the procedure, is creating new and further obstacles, penalizing once again th