'The Good Times for Illegals Are Over', Italy Begins Blocking Migrants

ZH: "The Safest Port Is Yours": Italy's Interior Minister Blocks Migrant Ship, Hundreds Of North Africans Denied Entry

Italy's new populist Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, has made good on his warning last weekend that "the good times for illegals are over" - writing an urgent letter ordering Malta to accept a ship carrying 629 shipwrecked North African migrants currently sitting off the Italian coast - calling Malta the "safest port" for the passengers, and advising that Rome will not offer refuge.

...Last Saturday, the recently elected Salvini said "the good times for illegals is over - get ready to pack your bags," adding "Countries need to start doing their job and no more smugglers should be docking in Italian ports," a not-so veiled jab at NGOs organizing rescues at sea.

"Italy and Sicily cannot be Europe's refugee camp," Salvini told a crowd in the vaction city of Pozzallo, a migration hotspot. "Nobody will take away my certainty that illegal immigration is a business... and seeing people make money on children who go on to die makes me furious," he added.