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05/15/2008: "Italy arrests 400 in illegal immigrants swoop"

Italian police announced on Thursday the arrest of hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants in a sign of the new right-wing government's determination to clamp down.

Police arrested 383 people including 268 foreigners, with 53 immediately taken to the border for expulsion, in a week-long operation stretching from northern Italy to the Naples area.

In Libya, police have arrested 240 would-be illegal migrants from several African countries over the past four days as they prepared to sail to Italy, the Interior Ministry said.

Libya is a springboard for hundreds of thousands of Africans trying to reach Europe via Italy on board unseaworthy boats.

[ The Italians need to be doing this every day if they're serious. And a big thank you to Colonel Gaddafi is in order - no one is comparing him to a nazi. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/italy_immigrants_dc