Italy's controversial former interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has tried to put migration on the agenda ahead of the country's snap election next month.
He visited Italy's southernmost island, Lampedusa, and claimed just 15% of current migrant arrivals qualify as refugees. Salvini also voiced concern that a migrant reception centre on Lampedusa was nearing collapse due to overcrowding, calling it “unworthy of a civilized country”.
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