WHILE in Italy recently, the local paper printed statistics that illegal boat people coming to Italy from North Africa had reached 40,000 in the first 22 weeks of this year, and there were an estimated 300,000 grouped around North Africa waiting to cross the Mediterranean to Italy.
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There is a huge impact on the country, which has asked other EU countries to help, but no country is listening.
— JOHN HAYDON,
Thurgoona