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On 8/22/19 8:39 PM, Save America - Ban Democrats wrote:

Swim home.

Migrants stranded aboard a Spanish rescue ship for 19 days in the Mediterranean Sea have resorted to jumping into the ocean in desperate attempts to swim ashore after Italy’s continued refusal to open its
ports.

The crew of the Open Arms humanitarian vessel, anchored just miles
from the Italian island Lampedusa, described the conditions on board
as “desperate” and increasingly "out of control" as frustrated
migrants resort to fighting or jumping ship.

One migrant jumped into the sea early Tuesday, refused to return to
the ship and was brought to Lampedusa, a reporter with the Spanish
public broadcaster TVE said. However, the move inspired 14 other
migrants to follow his lead.

The Spanish reporter described the jumpers as “going mad” after being trapped aboard the ship for weeks as Italy's hard-line interior
minister, Matteo Salvini, repeatedly refused port access.

Open Arms said the Italian coast guard rescued all 15 jumpers and
brought them to Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island.

American actor Richard Gere visited the 121 migrants aboard the ship
earlier this month to bring attention to the standoff as well as to much-needed food and supplies.

Those numbers have dwindled to 83 after dozens were evacuated in
recent days because they were underage or ill, while some of the more desperate have jumped.

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte, who announced his resignation Tuesday, declared last week that six nations – Spain, Portugal, Germany,
France, Romania and Luxembourg – had offered to take the migrants, who
were rescued at sea in early August off the coast of Libya.

Spain said Tuesday that it was dispatching a naval ship to escort the
aid group's boat and its passengers to a port in the Spanish island of Mallorca – a voyage that would take days to reach the migrants.

Open Arms spokeswoman Laura Lanuza said she heard from crew members
that "those who remain aboard are threatening to jump as well."

https://www.foxnews.com/world/migrants-italy-open-arms-ship

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/08/breaking-italy-seizes-ngo-migrant-ferry-open-arms/

BREAKING: Italy seizes NGO migrant ferry Open Arms - Voice of Europe
About Author Arthur Lyons

Earlier today, Spanish authorities sent a navy vessel to pick up
migrants aboard the migrant ferry Open Arms which has been sitting off
the coast of Italy’s Lampedusa island for a few days now.

According to ANSA news agency, which cited sources, Italy’s prosecutor’s office has seized Proactiva’s Open Arms migrant transport ship and has ordered the evacuation of the migrants.

The naval vessel sent by the Spanish government to assist the migrants
aboard Open Arms is expected to reach Lampedusa in three days.

Although Open Arms is about a few hundred feet away from the Island,
Italy’s National Populist government refuses to let it dock.

It has been reported while anchored off Italy’s coast, nine migrants
tried to jump off the ship to make a mad dash for the Italian coast.

NGO workers meanwhile have claimed that the hundred or so African
migrants aboard the ship are in critical psychological conditions as
tensions run high.

Yesterday, the Spanish government offered to let the ship dock at its
port in Mallorca, but the NGO refused on the account that the situation
on board the vessel was too dire, and the those on board wouldn’t be
able to withstand the five-day journey to reach the port.

The story is currently unfolding.

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