
Italy confirms construction delays in Albania will push back opening of migrant processing centers
Associated PressROME — Italian officials confirmed that Italy’s controversial new migrant processing centers in Albania, o riginally scheduled to open Thursday, won’t be operational for several more weeks because of construction delays. An Italian interior ministry spokesman confirmed that Mantovano’s assessment of a weekslong delay, first made on the sidelines of a July 24 conference, remained accurate Thursday when the centers were originally supposed to have opened. Premier Giorgia Meloni and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama inked the controversial agreement last year, under which some adult male migrants rescued at sea while trying to reach Italy would be taken instead to Albania while their asylum claims are processed. But Amnesty International and other human rights groups have blasted the deal, saying it would lead to arbitrary and prolonged detentions and that the 670 million euros Italy has budgeted for the plan would be better spent on reinforcing migrant processing structures in Italy.
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