So tell us about the Italian camps Silly-Sally, and don't dilly dally
Why, Juvenile Jerky Joey, since you are so good at finding out about the Israeli camps for illegals, I would think that such a fair, even balanced man like you would also know about the camps in Italy that you could pull up for us. Unless of course you are not at all interested in these camps for illegals which the Italian government has set up because you can't blame the Israelis for them. Just whom do you think you are fooling, you Sad Sack?
You brought up the Italian "illegals camps" so it should be up to you to post a link
MANDURIA, Italy Under dark rain clouds on Tuesday afternoon, a group of about 10 immigrants hopped the thin wire fence surrounding the makeshift tent camp here and made a run for it into a silvery olive grove and the freedom of Italy beyond.
Nadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times
More than 1,300 immigrants are being kept in the tent city. Most are Tunisians, but boats from Libya began to arrive last weekend.
North Africans are brought to Lampedusa before being sent to the Manduria camp.
Perhaps they could have just walked.
Oh, let them go, a plainclothes officer standing near the camps gate said loudly, his metal badge visible on his breast pocket.
The Italian government hastily built this camp in the Puglia region, the heel of Italys boot, last weekend to help hold immigrants evacuated from Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island south of Sicily that is jammed with thousands of immigrants from North Africa who have crossed the Mediterranean in fishing boats and are now sleeping in the open air.
The Puglia center, which holds about 1,300 people, is an example of the logistical challenges that Italy and Europe face as they prepare for thousands of immigrants fleeing the unrest in North Africa. So far, most of them have been Tunisians seeking work, but last weekend the first boats arrived from Libya carrying Somalis and Eritreans who had been working there.
To some Italians, the tent camp is as much a political statement as a humanitarian reality, the product of a center-right government intent on demonstrating that the immigration situation has become an emergency that requires a coordinated European response. If the authorities wanted to dramatize the problem, some say, what better way than with photographs of immigrants escaping from crowded holding areas?
Others see the camp as a bargaining chip in a diplomatic standoff between Italy and France, the former colonial power in Tunisia and the place where most of the Tunisians say they want to go.
Under European Union law, the country where immigrants arrive is responsible for determining their status.