Italian right wingers laud UK Rwanda migrant move

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Right wingers in Italy on Thursday hailed Britain's controversial move to send migrants and asylum seekers who cross the English Channel to Rwanda, an African country 6,000 miles away with a sketchy human rights record.
    Nationalist League party leader tweeted "Who's going to explain it to sleepy (Interior Minister Luciana) Lamorgese???", saying Rome should follow London's lead.
    His hard right ally Georgia Meloni of Brothers of Italy (FdI) said "the announcement from Conservative Prime Minister (Boris) Johnson once more gives the lie to the left which says illegal immigration is impossible to stop.
    "As always maintained by FdI, blocking departures and clandestine immigration is possible: you only have to want to".
    European Internal Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson tweeted Thursday: "Sending asylum seekers more than 6000 km away and outsourcing asylum processes is not a humane and dignified migration policy. I have been informed of the #UK Government's new migration strategy, which I think raises fundamental questions about #asylum and #protection". (ANSA).