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By Jay Greenberg
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By Paul Whitehead
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Italy’s populist leader Matteo Salvini has ordered regional officials to prepare a mass "eviction plan" to shut down the country's illegal migrant camps.
Italian Interior Minister Salvini has instructed officials to draft “reports on the presence of Roma, Sinti, and Camminanti settlements” in their respective areas within two weeks.
“The aim is to verify the presence of illegal camps to draw up an eviction plan,” according to a statement from the Interior Ministry.
According to the Council of Europe, there are between 120,000 and 180,000 Roma, Sinti and Caminanti in Italy, AFP Rome reports.
The Sinti are traditionally from the west and central Europe, while Roma has origins in the east and southeast of the continent.
The Caminanti is the smallest group, at about three percent.
Many in the groups are roaming non-citizens living in temporary refugee camps across Italy.
Salvini sparked controversy last year with his call for a new census of Roma, and for all non-Italians among them to be expelled from the country.
By Jay Greenberg
Almost all of the MS-13 gang members and associates charged with the “medieval-style” executions of seven people in California were in the United States illegally, officials said.
22 people linked to a subset of the vicious gang, that's known as the Fulton clique, have been charged by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.
Members of the gang are suspected in nearly 200 crimes across several states over 9 years, a federal indictment released Tuesday reveals.
"We have now taken off the streets nearly two dozen people associated with the most violent arm of MS-13 in Los Angeles," U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna said in a statement.
Of the 22 defendants, 19 are illegal aliens who had crossed the Southern Border illegally in the past three or four years, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in LA, Thom Mrozek.
Federal prosecutors allege the suspects operated in the San Fernando Valley, an area that recently absorbed an influx of young immigrants from Central America.
"Under the influence of these young gangsters, younger associates who wanted to become members of MS-13 were 'required to kill an MS-13 rival or someone perceived to be adverse to MS-13 to be initiated into MS-13,' according to the indictment," the U.S. Attorney's Office said Tuesday.
"In Los Angeles, a clique added new members through an initiation ritual known as 'jumping in,' during which several existing MS-13 members beat up a prospective MS-13 member for 13 seconds while the shot caller counted aloud for 13 seconds," the indictment read.
"Beginning in 2017 in Los Angeles, MS-13 members who identified with '503' had been required" to murder a rival or other enemy of the group.
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