Lampedusa

As we’ve been reporting here, the Italian island of Lampedusa has in the last couple of weeks had so many illegals coming in from North Africa they now outnumber the island’s Italian population by more than three to one.

Close to 1000 migrants have arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa after crossing the Mediterranean Sea by boat, news agency ANSA reported.

Dozens of people in Lampedusa held protests on Saturday against a plan to build a new tent camp.

Lampedusa, only 70 miles from Africa, is familiar with similar emergency situations but such numbers are unprecedented and pose a real political threat to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government who promised tighter immigration controls.

The coast guard in Rome and in Lampedusa declined to immediately confirm details of the rescue, including the deaths.

The number of migrant landings on the island of Lampedusa in Italy rose again on Thursday after a short break that only lasted a few days.

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued overnight after three days at sea as the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy's Lampedusa island, a rescue charity said on Wednesday.

At the continent’s southern border on the Italian island of Lampedusa, Jamie meets migrants coming fresh off the boat, hoping for a better life.

Investigators believe Issaoui arrived illegally in Europe on Italy’s Mediterranean island of Lampedusa on September 20. He then arrived at the mainland Italian port of Bari on October 9 before coming to Nice just one or two days before the attack.

Migrant Aouissaoui, 21, arrived in Europe by boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa on September 20 before being told to leave Italy.

Migrants are seen in a file photo at the immigration center on the southern Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy.

Small wooden boats carrying migrants from Tunisia have landed on the shores of Lampedusa for years.

The suspect, 21, had an Italian Red Cross document, issued after he arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa by migrant boat last month, reports the BBC.

A German humanitarian ship carrying 42 migrants rescued off Libya two weeks ago entered Italian waters Wednesday and was within sight of the southernmost island of Lampedusa in defiance of an explicit ban by the country’s hard-line interior minister.

A helicopter dispatched from a naval ship then rescued the three people, who were suffering from severe hypothermia and skin burns and were taken to hospital on Lampedusa.

Another humanitarian rescue boat, the Ocean Viking, has 356 migrants aboard and was sailing Friday in the waters between Malta and Linosa, a tiny Italian island just north of Lampedusa.

A tenth boat arrived Thursday in Italy’s Lampedusa.

For days, Open Arms has been anchored about 300 yards off Lampedusa, while Italy’s anti-migrant interior minister refuses docking permission.

In Europe, meanwhile, two humanitarian groups that have been flying search-and-rescue missions for migrants out of the Italian island of Lampedusa are protesting a move by Italy’s civil aviation authority to ground their planes.

It is headed for the Italian island of Lampedusa.