2,500 illegal immigrants a week from North Africa flooding into Europe through Italy

Daily Mail
"As many as 2,500 illegal immigrants a week are flooding into the continent from North Africa through Italy, the European Union's border protection agency has revealed.The official figures, which came from Warsaw based Frontex, show that for the first three months of this year 33,000 people entered Europe illegally with 22,600 coming through Italy.Most of those were economic migrants from Tunisia and sub-Sahran Africa who had fled countries that had been hit by popular uprisings in what was dubbed the Arab Spring"