Veneto Governor Luca Zaia said
Wednesday his region is not racist, but there is no more room
for more migrants.
"I live in a territory that is not racist, but now there's
no more room to spare," he told a parliamentary commission on
the migrant reception system in Italy and the application of the
Schengen accords.
His wealthy northern region is already hosting 3,966
refugees and is not willing to accept more, said the governor,
who hails from the anti-immigrant, anti-euro Northern League
party.
"Most of them are Moroccan and Senegalese...they are not
refugees," he added.
The ongoing migrant "exodus of biblical proportions" must
be stopped at the source, Zaia said.
"Immigration from North Africa has become an exodus of
biblical proportions," he said.
"It must be stopped at the source...by setting up reception
centers in Africa," he added.
"In that case the Veneto region is ready to send all
possible aid where it is needed - doctors, nurses, medicine,
civil protection".
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