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Raggi urges halt to migrant arrivals in Rome

13 giugno 2017 | 13.37
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Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi on Tuesday wrote to the government calling for a "moratorium" on migrants arriving in the capital and warning of "possibly devastating consequences" if attempts were made to take in any more.

"I find it impossible as well as risky to contemplate more reception facilities that have a big impact on...the city area," read Raggi's letter to Rome prefect Paola Basilone.

"I request a moratorium on new arrivals given the large migrant presence and the continual influx of foreign citizens."

In the letter, Raggi stresses the need to consider the "high migrant pressure Rome is subjected to".

"For these reasons this administration, given the high flows of unregistered migrants, hopes the assessments of new facilities take into account the evident migrant pressure on the capital and their possibly devastating consequences in terms of social costs as well as for the protection of the beneficiaries themselves," Raggi wrote.

Castelnuovo di Porto, 25 kilometers northwest of Rome houses one of Italy's 14 migrant and asylum-seeker reception centres, most of which are located in the south of the country.

One of Italy's five migrant identification and expulsion centres is in Rome's southern Ponte Galleria suburb.

There were approximately 364,632 foreigners living in Rome on 1 January 2015 - 12.7 percent of the total population - according to the most recent data available from the city council.

The Lazio region around Rome has the second highest number of migrants after the northern Lombardy region surrounding Milan according to the Roman Observatory on Migration.

As of 1 January last year, there were 365,000 foreign citizens resident in Rome, 529,000 in the metropolitan area of Rome and 645,000 in the Lazio region, amounting to 11 percent of the population - three percentage points above the national average, according to the Observatory.

Foreigners made up some 8.3 percent of Italy's population as of 31 December 2016, according to the latest demographic data released on Tuesday by national statistics office Istat.

Raggi in late May announced her administration would dismantle Roma Gypsy camps in the city, calling them a "feeding trough" for the mafia.

Raggi vowed to offer help finding housing and work to the thousands of Roma people who live in makeshift homes on the outskirts of the capital.

Previous Rome administrations have been accused by prosectors of collusion with "mafia-style" criminal gangs who creamed off millions of euros of public funds earmarked for the running of Roma and migrant camps, as well other projects such as waste management.

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