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01 November 2019 "We are not facing any invasion. Suffice it to say that in 2019 there were about 9,600 arrivals compared to 22,000 in 2018". The Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese says it in an interview with 'la Repubblica', who, questioned about the escalation of landings reported by her predecessor to the Interior Ministry, the leader of the Lega Matteo Salvini, states: "The data to which we do referring to the month of September only, comparing the landings in September 2018 and 2019, in fact the increase in numbers took place, but is mainly due to the increase in autonomous landings, which is not a new phenomenon ".

In particular, he adds, "in 2018 the migrants who arrived here with small boats numbered about 6 thousand, while since the beginning of this year they are around 7,500, and the tendency to increase had already been recorded since April. important occurred with the last landing of the Ocean Viking, on this occasion France and Germany offered the willingness to welcome 72 percent of migrants, in fact already implementing the Malta pre-agreement, which then begins to give the first results ". As for the repatriation activity, "we have taken action to intensify it. Let me explain. In October, 379 Tunisians landed on the Italian territory and we managed to repatriate 243, of which 138 landed in the same month. In this way the percentage of returnees compared to landed is over 60 percent ".

Government working to change Memoradum with Libya
"The government is working to change the contents" of the memorandum with Libya on migrants, explains the Interior Minister. "I limit myself to saying that we need to support the assisted voluntary repatriations, those organized by the UNHCR and the IOM, which have already allowed the return of 25 thousand migrants back home and the centers must be emptied through the European humanitarian corridors. of the United Nations. And anyway I want to clarify that the fight against smugglers has allowed this year to arrest as many as 86 ".

"Indignation for insults to Segre"
"I feel a profound disdain for the words of hatred addressed on the social media to the senator. I wanted to meet her personally to renew all my solidarity. And the vote of the Senate on the commission certainly represents a step forward, but it had to be shared by all parties "explains Minister Lamorgese. The abstentions on the proposal to establish the '' Segre commission '', he adds, "have deeply saddened me. It is unacceptable that in a country that has built its own Charter of Values ​​on the rejection of all forms of discrimination, try to report, even with an unprecedented verbal violence, the hands of the clock to a tragic and shameful page of history ".