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  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: A plastic cover used by Pakistani asylum seekers living in an abandoned construction site nearby the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: The office of the President of the Territorial Commission for Refugee Status, where asylum seekers' cases are examined, at the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014:  Interior of the recreation room of the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: Muhammed Ishfaq, a 29 years old Pakistani asylum seeker, sleeps in an abandoned  building site nearby the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014.<br />
After living in Spain for 2 years, Muhammed came to Sicily in the hope his case would be reviewed by the Territorial Commission for Refugee Status.<br />
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To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: Asylum seekers are here inside the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014:  Asylum seekers line up for lunch at the the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: An asylum seekers feeds doves and pigeons in the courtyard of  the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014:  An Imam and muslim asylum seekers pray inside the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 13 NOVEMBER 2014:  View of the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 13th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141114_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 13 NOVEMBER 2014: External fence of the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 13th 2014.<br />
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To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141113_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 13 NOVEMBER 2014: External fence of the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 13th 2014.<br />
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To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141113_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 13 NOVEMBER 2014: Pakistani asylum seekers are here outside the entrance to the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 13th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141113_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: The waiting room of the Territorial Commission for Refugee Status, where asylum seekers' cases are examined, at the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: Entrance to the Territorial Commission for Refugee Status, where asylum seekers' cases are examined, at the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: A Pakistani asylum seeker talks with a fellow on the other side of the fence at the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: An asylum seeker from Mali is here in a recreation room of the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: A Pakistani asylum seeker talks with a fellow on the other side of the fence at the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: Asylum seekers gather near the Director of the centre to protest about their living conditions at the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: Containers where 8 to 12 asylum seekers live, at the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: An asylum seekers feeds doves and pigeons in the courtyard of  the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: Asylum seekers gather in the courtyard of the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 28 NOVEMBER 2014: Muslim asylum seekers pray inside the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 28th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141128_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 13 NOVEMBER 2014: Pakistani asylum seekers walk back to the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) with a cart of purchased juices and sodas in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 13th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141114_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 13 NOVEMBER 2014: Pakistani asylum seekers walk back to the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) with a cart of purchased juices and sodas in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 13th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141114_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 13 NOVEMBER 2014: The bus ticket office in Caltanissetta, Italy, where asylum seekers buy their tickets to Rome, on November 13th 2014.<br />
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To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141113_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 13 NOVEMBER 2014: Pakistani asylum seekers ask information to a bus ticket seller at the bus station in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 13th 2014. After receiving either a refugee status, humanitarian or subsidiary protection, asylum seekers who decide to continue their journey outside Sicily take a bus to Rome, 900km away.<br />
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To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141113_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 13 NOVEMBER 2014: A Pakistani asylum seeker says good-bye to friends as he leaves for Rome by bus, at the bus station in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 13th 2014. After receiving either a refugee status, humanitarian or subsidiary protection, asylum seekers who decide to continue their journey outside Sicily take a bus to Rome, 900km away.<br />
<br />
To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141113_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 13 NOVEMBER 2014: A Pakistani asylum seeker says good-bye to friends as he leaves for Rome by bus, at the bus station in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 13th 2014. After receiving either a refugee status, humanitarian or subsidiary protection, asylum seekers who decide to continue their journey outside Sicily take a bus to Rome, 900km away. <br />
<br />
To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141113_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • CALTANISSETTA, ITALY - 13 NOVEMBER 2014: An asylum seeker from Mali is here outside the Pian del Lago CARA (Accommodation Centre for Asylum Seekers) in Caltanissetta, Italy, on November 13th 2014. To this date, the Pian de Lago CARA hosts 491 asylum seekers, while 40 illegal immigrants are held in the CIE (Center for Identification and Deportation), before being deported.
    CIPG_20141113_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A teenager from Kosovo who immigrated to Italy 14 years ago is seen here playing soccer in the playground of the migrant center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2203.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A residents of Como attends Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, here at the Broletto, a medieval building next to the Cathedral in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Landriscina wants to close the reception centers.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2034.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Residents of Como attend Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, here at the Broletto, a medieval building next to the Cathedral in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Landriscina wants to close the reception centers.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1903.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Tourists enjoy and local residents are seen here by Lake Como in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2443.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A Sub-Saharan migrant (left) is seen here sitting by Lake Como while tourists enjoy the water, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2437.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A basketball board is seen here in the playground of the migrant center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2200.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Residents of Como gather at a gazebo at Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, here at the Broletto, a medieval building next to the Cathedral in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Landriscina wants to close the reception centers.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2011.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017:  Mario Landriscina (left), the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center, poses for a portrait in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1994.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017:  Mario Landriscina (left), the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center, answers questions at a journalist at the end of his rally in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1974.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giorgia Meloni (right), leader of the Fratelli d’Italia party, takes a selfie with a supporter at the end of Mr Landriscina's rally in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1941.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giorgia Meloni (left), leader of the Fratelli d’Italia party, takes a selfie with a supporter at the end of Mr Landriscina's rally in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1938.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Residents of Como attend Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, here at the Broletto, a medieval building next to the Cathedral in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Landriscina wants to close the reception centers.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1905.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Residents of Como attend Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, here at the Broletto, a medieval building next to the Cathedral in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Landriscina wants to close the reception centers.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
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While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1883.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A migrant (right) walks by the Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como who wants to close the migrant reception centers in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. <br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1855.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Residents of Como attend Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, here at the Broletto, a medieval building next to the Cathedral in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Landriscina wants to close the reception centers.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1841.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Residents of Como attend Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, here at the Broletto, a medieval building next to the Cathedral in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Landriscina wants to close the reception centers.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1792.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A view of Lake in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2598.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A man is seen here as he fishes in Lake Como, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2597.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Fofana Abdoulaye, a 31-years old migrant fro the Ivory Coast whose fream was to become a politician, poses for a portrait here by Lake Como in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2572.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Fofana Abdoulaye, a 31-years old migrant fro the Ivory Coast whose fream was to become a politician, poses for a portrait here by Lake Como in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2567.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Fofana Abdoulaye, a 31-years old migrant fro the Ivory Coast whose fream was to become a politician, is seen here by Lake Como in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2559.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Fofana Abdoulaye, a 31-years old migrant fro the Ivory Coast whose fream was to become a politician, is seen here by Lake Como in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2547.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Fofana Abdoulaye, a 31-years old migrant fro the Ivory Coast whose fream was to become a politician, is seen here by Lake Como in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2525.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A group of migrants from Guinea sit on a wall by Lake Como in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2511.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Barrialfa Karavate, a 21 years-old migrant from Guinea, looks at the water of Lake Como in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Karavate's wish is to join a girl he met during his journey throughout Africa to reach Europe, and who now is in Germany.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2469.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A Sub-Saharan migrant (center, in silhouette) is seen here walking by Lake Como while tourists enjoy the water, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2456.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A seaplane is seen here of the Lake Como as it is prepared to take off, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2409.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: An East African migrants is seen here at the Red Cross reception center in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2359.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A bicycle used by a migrant hosted in the center ran by priest Giusto della Valle is seen here as its owner chats with a friend, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2289.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, carries a basket of home-grown beans in the center, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2283.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: The Abillah family, a family of Afghani migrants who children were all born in Europe, poses for a portrait in the migrant center ran by priest Giusto della Valle  in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2255.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Marzia Abillah (center, 8 years old), born born in Italy from Afghani migrants who arrived in Italy in 2001, is seen here with her parents in the migrant center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.  As she read an Italian magazine and chatted with her siblings in Italian, her father Muhamed Delah Abillah (31, left) said: “She has an Italian name. We want her to be Italian.”<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2242.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Sandra Obodo (left), 26), a Nigerian migrant, is seen here as one friend braids her hair  in the center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Ms. Obodo said she crossed over from Libya nine months ago after escaping retribution murders at home and that a second boat she departed with was lost at sea.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2169.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Sandra Obodo (left), 26), a Nigerian migrant, is seen here as one friend braids her hair  in the center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Ms. Obodo said she crossed over from Libya nine months ago after escaping retribution murders at home and that a second boat she departed with was lost at sea.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2156.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Sandra Obodo (center, 26), a Nigerian migrant, is seen here as one friend braids her hair and another sleeps at her foot, in the center ran by priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Ms. Obodo said she crossed over from Libya nine months ago after escaping retribution murders at home and that a second boat she departed with was lost at sea.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2152.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, is seen here in the center, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2143.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, walks up the stairs of the center, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2135.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, is seen here in the locker room with the locker doors warped from break-ins, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2128.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A blackboard used for Italian lessons for the migrants hosted in the center ran by the priest Giusto della Valle, is seen here in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
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Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2124.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: The room where a woman and her two small children slept in last night and in which 24 teenagers slept until May, is seen here in the center ran by the priest Giusto della Valle in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2116.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, walks up the stairs of the center with a migrant he hosts, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2109.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, is seen here at the entrance of the San Martino di Rebbio parrish with the sign "Coexist", written a crescent moon, a star of David and Christian cross, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2097.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: The soccer trophy  won by the refugees hosted by priest Giusto della Valle is seen here in the dining room of the center in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Giusto Della Valle is a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2088.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giusto Della Valle, a local priest who since 2011 has run a center on the outskirts of town where more than 50 migrants sleep at night, picks the soccer trophy the refugees he hosts won in a tournament for National Refugee Day this month in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2086.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017:  Mario Landriscina (left), the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center, poses for a portrait in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2008.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017:  Mario Landriscina (left), the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center, poses for a portrait in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1997.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017:  Mario Landriscina (left), the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center, answers questions at a journalist at the end of his rally in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1976.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017:  Mario Landriscina (left), the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center, answers questions at a journalist at the end of his rally in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1974.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017:  Mario Landriscina (left), the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center, answers questions at a journalist at the end of his rally in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1947.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Giorgia Meloni (left), leader of the Fratelli d’Italia party, takes a selfie with a supporter at the end of Mr Landriscina's rally in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1938.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Residents of Como attend Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, here at the Broletto, a medieval building next to the Cathedral in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Landriscina wants to close the reception centers.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1883.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Residents of Como attend Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, here at the Broletto, a medieval building next to the Cathedral in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Landriscina wants to close the reception centers.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1841.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Technicians unmount a table at the end of Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, here at the Broletto, a medieval building next to the Cathedral in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Landriscina wants to close the reception centers.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2026.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017:  Mario Landriscina (left), the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center, poses for a portrait in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2008.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017:  Mario Landriscina (left), the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center, poses for a portrait in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1997.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017:  Mario Landriscina (left), the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center, poses for a portrait in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1990.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017:  Mario Landriscina (left), the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center, answers questions at a journalist at the end of his rally in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1976.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017:  Mario Landriscina (left), the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center, answers questions at a journalist at the end of his rally in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1947.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Flyers of Giorgia Meloni (leader of the Fratelli d’Italia party) and of Mario Landriscina (the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center), are seen here at Mr Landriscina's rally in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1945.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: (L-R) Giorgia Meloni (leader of the Fratelli d’Italia party), Mario Landriscina (the leading candidate for Mayor of Como who wants to close the migrants reception center), and Ignazio La Russa (a lawmaker of the Fratelli d'Italia party), are seen here at the end of Mr Landriscina's rally in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1920.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Residents of Como attend Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, here at the Broletto, a medieval building next to the Cathedral in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Landriscina wants to close the reception centers.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1899.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Residents of Como attend Mario Landriscina's rally,  the leading candidate for mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, here at the Broletto, a medieval building next to the Cathedral in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Landriscina wants to close the reception centers.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1839.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Mario Landriscina, the leading candidate for Mayor of Como after the first round of voting to replace the left-leaning mayor, who wants to close the reception center for migrants, walks by a migrant as he heady to his rallyin Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_1765.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A view of Como, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
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While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170622_NYT_Como__M3_2630.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A view of Como, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
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Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
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While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170622_NYT_Como__M3_2608.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A man is seen here as he fishes in Lake Como, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2592.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A view of Lake in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2588.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A group of migrants from Guinea sit on a wall by Lake Como in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2524.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A group of migrants from Guinea sit on a wall by Lake Como in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2506.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: Barrialfa Karavate, a 21 years-old migrant from Guinea, poses for a portrait by Lake Como in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017. Mr Karavate's wish is to join a girl he met during his journey throughout Africa to reach Europe, and who now is in Germany.<br />
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Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2477.jpg
  • COMO, ITALY - 21 JUNE 2017: A Sub-Saharan migrant (left) is seen here walking by Lake Como while tourists enjoy the water, in Como, Italy, on June 21st 2017.<br />
<br />
Residents of Como are worried that funds redirected to migrants deprived the town’s handicapped of services and complained that any protest prompted accusations of racism.<br />
<br />
Throughout Italy, run-off mayoral elections on Sunday will be considered bellwethers for upcoming national elections and immigration has again emerged as a burning issue.<br />
<br />
Italy has registered more than 70,000 migrants this year, 27 percent more than it did by this time in 2016, when a record 181,000 migrants arrived. Waves of migrants continue to make the perilous, and often fatal, crossing to southern Italy from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, seeing Italy as the gateway to Europe.<br />
<br />
While migrants spoke of their appreciation of Italy’s humanitarian efforts to save them from the Mediterranean Sea, they also expressed exhaustion with the country’s intricate web of permits and papers and European rules that required them to stay in the country that first documented them.
    CIPG_20170621_NYT_Como__M3_2453.jpg
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