The cabinet of far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has increased the detention time for migrants to be expelled from Italy from a maximum of 135 days to 18 months. teleSUR
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00:00 On Monday, Italy also extended the detention periods for illegal immigrants to deter arrivals
00:06 after record boat crossings from North Africa to Lampedusa Island saw the country's southernmost
00:11 tip overwhelmed.
00:12 The cabinet of far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni increased from a maximum of 135 days
00:17 to 18 months the detention time for migrants to be expelled from Italy in a message to
00:22 all of Africa.
00:23 Meloni has revealed that if they trust the smugglers to break Italian laws when they
00:27 arrive in Italy, they will be detained and then evacuated for the migration.
00:31 Specialist Alfonso Giordano, professor at the Luis University of Rome, said it is difficult
00:36 to guarantee the return of migrants.
00:38 Giordano also doubted that the extension of the time of detention would work as a deterrent.
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