Italy asked for Permission on Sunday to use police intervention to prevent the sudden influx of Tunisian migrants coming into the country. Italian sources say there have been over 4,000 migrants on the island of Lampedusa, which is South of Sicily and East of Tunisia. The usual population of the island is around 5,000. The Italian Minister of the Interior, Roberto Maroni, has issued a Humanitarian Emergency and has asked for aid from the European Union. Maroni also cites the failure of other European states to help Italy in the matter of immigration. Italy cites the need to put the migrants into detention camps in Sicily and other prisons in Italy because they feel as if terrorists and other criminals may be using the unrest around the region to enter Europe. The detention camps are just a way to check the migrants identities. The UN's refugee agency says that the primary causes of this influx are from those seeking political asylum after the upheaval of the Tunisian Government and those just seeking to escape poverty.
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By: Zach Howell
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