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10 August 2020 The work on the immigration decree "is closed. I am waiting for the opinion of the Anci because the reception system changes a bit. The reception centers will have to be managed by the Municipalities. I hope to be able to send the text to Palazzo Chigi before mid-August , then we will talk about it in September. The important thing is to have found a text shared with the majority ". This was stated by the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese, interviewed at the Caffeina Festival in Santa Severa by Marco Tarquinio, director of Avvenire. 

The reception system has been modified, the Quirinale's observations have been incorporated
In the new immigration decree we have incorporated "all the observations that had been made by the Presidency of the Republic. And we went further: we have changed the reception system also for those who are asylum seekers, so that they enter the reception circuit identical to the one that is reserved today to those who are holders of humanitarian protection, returning to a bit like it was before ", said Lamorgese.

14 thousand arrivals in 2020, boom in July 
"About 14 thousand migrants have arrived since the beginning of the year. The number that raised the bar is the one that comes from the month of July, when there was a very strong political and economic crisis in Tunisia and people who never thought of leaving their country and ventured to our shores ", explained the Minister of the Interior.

Covid complicates things
"We have tried to organize everything to avoid contagions and try to isolate those who are positive, bearing in mind that the communities do not accept them. And Covid makes things even more complicated, even for migrants and for the fact that we keep them in quarantine ", said Luciana Lamorgese interviewed at the Caffeina Festival in Santa Severa.