Inside Italy’s answer to the Rwanda migrant scheme in Albania

The Italian navy began deporting migrants to a new offshore processing centre in Albania on Monday, signalling the start of a model eagerly watched by Britain and much of Europe struggling with migration.
Migrants, some of whom were intercepted in small boats in the Mediterranean, were ferried form the mainland to a port where they would be processed before being detained in new centres where their applications for asylum will be assessed.
The Telegraph visited the newly-built facilities on Monday before the first arrivals docked. On a tour organised by the Italian foreign ministry, reporters were shown neat, white rows of cabins for processing and a sprawling holding centre with 20ft-high wire fences, resembling a prison.
The first batch of migrants and refugees were on their way to the Adriatic port after being picked up at sea by the Libra, an Italian navy ship.
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[@GrahamJackson-j2s]

UK needs to learn from these countries and do what the majority want and not the minority.

[@RickySpanish-RS]

most of them still get in they just need to come from any part of any region with conflict.

[@Azraeel11]

😂 That does not sounds good. "Don't listen to minority" . If there was a perfect world where everyone could agree on something. It can never be achieved so satisfying majority of people is second best option i suppose. Many migrants coming to Western countries have very good reasons to leave their home country. Afterall, who wants to leave their birthplace, home town anyway. I am not big believer in God but only a miracle such as god, if it exists, can make the world such a place where everyone can be happy at once. 🙏🏼

[@M.B.331]

Yes, they have a good reason to come here: our welfare system! 💰🤑

[@jimihayes2763]

​@@Azraeel11 Give it a rest

[@boofuu3145]

@@Azraeel11 no good accepting people if we cant house them , the countries they come from should get their act together and look after their people or be sanctioned

[@Brett-im2jo]

Labour dropped rwanda idea but the rest of Europe are looking at similar models,shows how out of touch Labour are.

[@richardpedley6291]

Laber is a joke m8 were all doomed under them

[@Jack-v6s7j]

99.9% should be repatriated and why couldn't the UK do this - Asylum seekers ( economic migrants would be reduced by 95% over the next few months

[@aosaeanor]

UK looted too many countries over several centuries. Time for payback. Migrants from their ex- colonies should settle in UK & make the most of the country that became rich by exploiting their homeland

[@user-rd8ow4sn8v]

Finally a politician with balls.

[@thewevil54321]

Being scared of asylum seekers isn’t a sign of bravery

[@hughjohns9110]

@@thewevil54321letting them all in without question certainly isn’t.

[@MrOtates2013]

​@@thewevil54321asylum?

[@thewevil54321]

@@hughjohns9110 they’re not allowed in without genuine asylum claim, maybe UK could have just taken the French up on their offer of creating asylum claim processing units in Calais and provide a safe route for those with genuine claims

[@thewevil54321]

@@hughjohns9110 no need to send genuine asylum seekers to what looks like prison and risk re-traumatizing them. Kind of defeats the humanitarian purpose

[@dazjackson1972]

Which means they'll be in Dover by Friday!

[@mwd331]

No, they are in a centre in Albania…

[@dazjackson1972]

@@mwd331 lol 😂 Albania already sends us their worst. It's gonna be much cheaper for them if these "Asylum seekers" simply disappear from the centres.

[@dazjackson1972]

@@mwd331 Like they're gonna stay there 😂

[@mwd331]

@@dazjackson1972 They can’t leave, it’s a processing centre so there are kept there to have their claims processed. It’s not hard to understand.

[@dazjackson1972]

@@mwd331 What's the weather like, up there in cloud cuckoo land? They are always absconding in the UK - I doubt Albania are any better at keeping tabs on them.

[@PaulAJames-q9h]

We in Australia stopped boat years ago

[@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy]

Yet your government wants to import 3000 of Hamas supporters from Gaza

[@indigocheetah4172]

Now our Prime Minister is inviting them in!

[@Ne0dymm]

​@@indigocheetah4172no they are coming legally it's just that they are still ethnically replacing the British and aboriginal people who lived there for hundreds of years. Shut migration to non europeans

[@indigocheetah4172]

@@Ne0dymm yes

[@Tony-x7k]

we have Chinese Asian Africa Muslims Indians in Australia absolutely insane

[@Sensiblesally]

Finally a government with the balls to do something about this invasion. Well done Italy 👏

[@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy]

Bravo Bravo Italy!!!

[@TheSouth-j7f]

Maybe they should do a deal with the Taleban to have a facility there with strict Sharia law so the immigrants will know the rules already.

[@reecom9884]

The Albanians get paid by the Italians to bring migrants into their country without documents as along as they stay in the processing center and then remove them after determining their status. The migrants never set foot on Italian soil, so the Italian courts doesn’t have to get involved in long drawn-out court battles. The offshore processing center in Albania is like how an international airport works, the migrants wait in “No Country’s Sovereign land” waiting their immigration status.

[@rustyrocket8765]

Isn’t lampedusa an Italian soil ? The migrants coming from Africa travel to lampedusa before being transported to Albania…

[@reecom9884]

@@rustyrocket8765 “The group were intercepted at sea by an Italian naval ship, which is now taking them to the port of Shengjin…” from the video, they were never on Italian soil or indicated they were transported from an Italian port.

[@jeremymoore1746]

Only took about 15 years.

[@M.C.K.111]

Actually it was decided about a year ago by Meloni... Before her there were leftist PMs who supported this invasion ..even now the left wing parties are strongly criticizing Meloni for this deportation of " poor illegal migrants" who were looking for a better life in Italy

[@Hemalkukurkure]

Better late than never

[@M.C.K.111]

@@jeremymoore1746 it's not true because Meloni signed a partnership with Albania a year ago and took some time to build the accomodation centre

[@AlFreeman-xy4jy]

@MCK111 4 months were lost for the assessment of the Constitutional Court of Albania, all in record time. This shows that when the will is there, things are done quickly.

[@hughjohns9110]

Good on Italy. Currently my favourite country.

[@liljanasufaj4130]

Thanks to Albania, too! It helped Meloni and Italy MASSIVELY. Nobody will try to enter Italy if they know they will end up in Albania....There are so many emigrants in Greece who don't dare to go further up Europe through Albania. They always used Macedonia as a transit place and never Albania. Albania's reputation scares the hell out of migrants.( which is good for Albania)....

[@flavio7180]

​@@liljanasufaj4130Don't know why it has this wierd reputation though. Anybody that has been to Albania knows that it is a very safe country, with hospitable and respectful people.

[@fastsnake]

Your only criteria for being your "favourite country" is sending migrants in another country... Wow, your standards are amazing (not).

[@Andy-y9h]

Move there.

[@Queerz4Palestein]

BREXIT MEANS BREXIT!

[@fhugheveleigh2]

The UK government would not dare to innovate in such a way.

[@NicolasHaufe]

Finnaly someone doing Something against Islamofasc ism

[@Elijah-qu6tt]

U.S, France, UK and Germany need to learn from these countries, no illegal immigrants no crime.

[@Justin-yt8zv]

no crime is a bit of a strech but it would stop adding to crime certainly.

[@Cignallo1789]

No illegal immigrants?? Every day 1000 new illegal immigrants come to Italy... Only 16 immigrants had been transported to Albania. That's just a pubblicity stunt.

[@KaratePath]

@@Cignallo1789 it just started, the 16 blocked just happened to be the first, it can process 3k per month, thats 36k per year, a nice ammount. PDiota

[@carasdawr4752]

Exactly the way that this should be dealt with...but of course soft-touch Britain will always roll-over when being told what to do by everyone else.

[@yossariandunbar2829]

Can Meloni be our PM too?

[@d.d.4703]

Imagine the uproar, not least from most Labour MP's, if we did similar here. But no chance anyway. Look what happened to the Rwanda plan.

[@Honeybadger017]

Twenty years too late but this needs to be applauded.

[@nathandade8212]

Common sense rules

[@pawprintsjersey5787]

The army are coming in all young single army men been drifted in, all over Europe!! The plan 😮😮

[@A.I.WarFare1947]

Migrants No Invaders warfare Yes

[@hannacook859]

Just keep in mind that prosecution is not persecution

[@keithhooper6123]

Poland has "suspended" acceptance of asylum applications.UK could do the same,with no set date to re introduce acceptance.

[@Bandit_Pete]

Its OK, here in the UK we are going to send them to Rawanda. Oh wait..... Sorry, no idea Kier has scrapped that plan, and it only cost £77 million.

[@AndyCarroll-b2l]

The treacherous, wretched Refugee Council should be dealt with. Shut them down. Supports all migrants not just those in genuine need.

[@UBZUKki]

Excellent

[@egidijuzzzzz]

Looks better than any moden militarily barracks, and they still complain

[@archiebunker5256]

Whaaaat, no 5* hotel ?

[@howner501]

UK follow please

[@somewhereuk1957]

Meanwhile in the UK, Abdu, Mishraf and Co have disappeared into the ether never to be seen again, at least until they get arrested for things not worth mentioning here.. I wish I had a Polish leader in this country...

[@bartektunia]

Great

[@mariano7699]

Perfect,

[@Grizleea]

Yes and make them build it for food

[@victorgrasscourt3382]

The U.K. could build a facility like this in Northern Ireland for processing illegal immigrants. There used to be internment camps there, so why not immigrants processing camps?

[@franr2315]

Wondering how they do this when ID gets ditched

[@grahampritchard5284]

A proccess centre on Ascension Island will work for the UK.

[@bobsharpe2899]

No chance of Starmer learning something is there?

[@anibrown5374]

People who will be imported, funnelled through and shared with the rest of Europe. Who is really behind this and for what purpose.

[@brushmarkarts]

Looks familiar though

[@starf1are505]

😂😂😂

[@aspie2901]

Auschwitz

[@bertcopying1036]

Good job, Italy!

[@kenw5104]

Congrats Italia-Albania. Who could UK version of Albania be under Starmer?

[@AlFreeman-xy4jy]

Malta? Gibraltar? Cyprus?

[@kenw5104]

@@AlFreeman-xy4jy Apparently some eastern european states that EU would agree beforehand. Otherwise, they'ld have all ended up in Rwanda years ago.

[@AlFreeman-xy4jy]

@kenw5104 So Serbia? Macedonia? Montenegro? These would be good.

[@u-two]

EU countries are based in Albania and Kosovo, in Albanian refuges, in Kosovo Ratifies Deal to Host 300 Prisoners From Denmark,

[@MikelJackson-d8r]

Only that UK has no friends in Europe. No eastern European country has any reason to do that for UK

[@RuiR.]

👍

[@andrewalexander2699]

Looks more sensible than Rwanda scheme, whwre we can properly vet who we let in andrhe chancers loking for hand outs can be sent packing from genuine in frar of their lives , and rhey could be evenly spread out to different distenanations

[@ronaldbercilla1993]

Just because of irresponsible governments and religious abuses,some humane countries faces unnecessary burdens,its not their fault nor obligation,its the fault of erring governments and religion particularly Islam.

[@donnacaulfield2762]

US definitely!

[@reahuntley507]

It’s just a land based Bobby Stockholm

[@bulliblue]

many empty Islands around Shetland and Orkney, builr a processing centre there, if they start to realise they are going there first they might think twice before getting oon a boat.

[@earnestequivocation6250]

Too early to draw any safe conclusions. Israel pulled out of Rwanda and it’s not a squeamish Nation is it?

[@Striker885]

They tok inspiration frm the uk no doubt

[@getuptogetdown918]

So do they all get to stay? Yay

[@SameerSharma-gh8mg]

Repatriate,like 98% of them. how will they repatriate thousands of them😂😂😂 . They'll never leave Europe.

[@wesleywild-s9x]

A bit late imo

[@metoo6599]

This looks like a prison.

[@cristiangaban960]

And?

[@TheSouth-j7f]

They did cross border illegally.

[@rokas_stulga]

they are not sentences to time...they are waiting their process there because they crossed the border ILLEGALY. pretty simple.

[@sharronharrison251]

It's a detention centre....and if they are fleeing!?!? It's better 100 times from where they've fled from fgs!!

[@u-two]

well is 100% much better then what they left in africa

[@SwatantraNandanwar]

Thats all right then....At least they can play football

[@leonhue722]

Sending this to the next president of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ... DONALD TRUMP

[@BigPete-e8m]

This is just a check point hotel for them to there final destination it's a smoke screen

[@vincelemaire]

😍

[@URFUTUREUK]

Whats the point. And why do they get legal aid and help? Im angry and I want my daughters 64 million nownevee used a solicitor, want the money NOW

[@SlegsBlankes]

I hope the food and drinks are at their liking.

[@brucefraser8583]

UK FOLLOW UP NOW. WAKE UP WAKE UP. LABOUR

[@AndyCarroll-b2l]

Yippee…

[@marciabueno5093]

Italy does not have the infrastructure to deal with this. At all.

[@Brielle839]

It’s a prison

[@mishjas8084]

Good that's illegal people should be!

[@BobTheBlue]

And?

[@Solid_Snake99]

So what? Crossing a border is a crime

[@sharronharrison251]

No it's not. It's a detention centre. And IF they're 'fleeing'.....200 times better that there they've 'fled' from!!

[@FiveSecondsUntilShadow]

Then they can stay in their countries of origin

[@JUDETHADDEASbright]

Italy sets a great example for the world by building prisons in foreign countries for innocent people in need of help. Other countries should learn from Italy's hospitality and follow suit. Well done, Italy!

[@becca8225]

Entering countries illegally is not an act of innocence

[@andromeda4641]

@@becca8225 They are not very good in using common sense, please be patient with them.

[@lapraxi]

Oh I'm sorry if they couldn't be accommodated in 5 stars hotels and trash everything

[@beginninginnewyork3459]

Binhurd霍罗聘。

[@techscrew2]

At last

[@interekweb]

I’m from Albania and we are thankful for all these refugees ❤

[@James-r2y9o]

No your not and no your not

[@Oliver-v5l]

They are literally not wanted by anyone

[@AlFreeman-xy4jy]

@James-r2y9o It will give visibility and even employment to our Albanian friends, perhaps even act as a driving force for development in the area.

[@claudiocalabrese3865]

Non c’è di che 😉

[@Oliver-v5l]

@@AlFreeman-xy4jy explain yourself?

[@Nobody-s2j9q]

They spend a massive amount of money to just make a small present to their voters. Well done Meloni, UK isn't the dumbest one.

[@Nobody-s2j9q]

@user-sf5xx7lb2m is just useless trick to keep people voting for them, like brexit, dumb people vote for dumb solutions

[@intersezioni]

building these two centers in Albania cost 800 million euros. Before Meloni's arrival, previous center-left governments allocated 5 billion euros every year for reception in Italy

[@Nobody-s2j9q]

@@intersezioni 800 million of euros only for building it, not for the maintain, move from Italy to Albania, pay the Albanian government... and still totally useless to handle immigration, in a country that have way way more immigrant per year. Dumb solutions for dumb voters. Like UK and the Rwanda solution... stupid voters love this stupid solutions.

[@marinosferderigos8120]

😢😢😢😢

[@henasgd1566]

We hope at least 500 milions of migrants from Africa will reach Europe and UK. We are waiting. We hope they will help us live a better life. ,

[@THEPRESSTV]

😂😂😂 500 million 😂

[@SAMSUNGTV-s4y]

​@@THEPRESSTV😂😂😂

[@TheSouth-j7f]

Yes most will want to go to the UK to play football while the rest will live in 5 star hotels. Wonderful.

[@Skanderbeg-t8z]

NO.

[@fabriziodagostini9081]

This Is the difference between a country of pirates and and old civilization.......!

[@WokeBan]

2 tier Kier needs to take Note!

[@user-oz7lq9ln6z]

Hi🙋🏻‍♀️everyone 🗺️🕊️🫶 Some will be the Real Asylum Seekers who have faced persecution for their beliefs etc & the rest will be deceivingly lying to claim asylum. They will sinfully, illegally go to any extent with false claims to get their asylum.

[@murtalamusa5339]

Immigrants stay in your country be patient by God things will be alright ❤

[@murtalamusa5339]

Immigrants stay in your country be patient by God things will alright ❤