Backlash grows as Italy migrant arrivals top 50,000

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Lombardy president Roberto Maroni said he would be writing to local mayors and prefects in his region on Monday to warn them not to accept any more “illegal immigrants” allocated by the government

Municipalities that did not tow the line would have their funding from the region cut, he said.

Giovanni Toti, the newly-elected president of Liguria, backed that stance.

“We will not receive any more migrants,” he said.

Luca Zaia, the right-wing president of Veneto, said the region that includes Venice was “like a bomb ready to go off. The social tensions are absolutely crazy.” More