Migrant traffickers are in fact
selecting the younger, healthier and wealthier of the migrants
who cross the Mediterranean in search of a better life or
fleeing hunger and conflict, Justice Minister Carlo Nordio said
Monday.
"The selection of the migrants is not done on the basis of their
interests but on those of the traffickers," he said.
"The poorest of the poor, the old, the ill, the moribund, remain
there.
"Those who come to Italy can afford to pay 2-5,000 euros to
these organizations that transport them. We take them not
because we are good but because we are resigned".
"If we were good we would take the poorest of the poor and the
most seriously ill of the ill".
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