There are 800 thousand people, if not more, ready to go from Africa to Europe, said the central director of Immigration and Border Police, John Pinto, at a hearing heard by the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committees of the Senate. He added: “The reception system for migrants is collapsing, we can no longer hold them and local populations are being pushed out by the continuous arrival of foreigners.”
“The Interior Ministry is considering a plan to host 50,000 migrants, because 16 thousand seats of Sprar (the system of protection for asylum seekers and refugees) are not sufficient,” said the central director of Immigration and Border Police, John Pinto.