While EU member states remain divided on the thorny issue of asylum-seeker quotas, Italy finds itself on the front lines with more than 45,000 illegal immigrants landing on its shores since January. Thousands of these migrants have decided to seek asylum in Italy. FRANCE 24's Natalia Mendoza and Alice Philipson went to Sicily to meet them.
Programme prepared by Patrick Lovett.
 

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