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The Latest on the migrant crisis in Europe (all times local):

10:40 p.m.

Italy's migrant crisis is spawning new protests, with a local mayor in Sicily leading a popular revolt to prevent a few dozen new arrivals from taking up residence in an abandoned hotel.

Vincenzo Lionetto, mayor of Castel'Umberto in Messina, wrote an "urgent and important" Facebook post advising residents that the local prefect had just informed him that the 30 or so migrants would be transferred to the Canguro hotel.

He led a dozen or so residents in surrounding the hotel with their cars Saturday, though the migrants apparently were already inside.

Tensions over migration are running high in Italy, with daily arrivals of new asylum-seekers and local officials complaining they don't have space to take them in. The issue is particularly sensitive with elections expected this year or next.

2:20 p.m.

Spain's maritime rescue service says that it has saved 19 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in a small boat.

The service tells The Associated Press that all 19 migrants were men claiming Algerian nationality.

The boat was spotted late on Friday night, and rescuers reached it early on Saturday morning in waters off the southeastern coast of Spain.

Thousands of migrants from Africa attempt the perilous crossing to Europe in small boats that are unfit for the open sea and often launched by human smugglers

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Thousands trying to reach Western Europe are facing an ever increasing desperate situation as countries close their borders and are overwhelmed by the flow of migrants and refugees.

Here, a mounted policeman leads a group of migrants near Dobova, Slovenia, October 20, 2015.

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Doctors and paramedics take care of a child who was later taken to the hospital following a rescue operation when a boat with migrants sank while attempting to reach the Greek island of Lesbos from Turkey on October 28, 2015.

The Greek coast guard said it rescued 242 refugees and migrants off the eastern island of Lesbos on October 28, 2015, after the wooden boat they traveled in capsized.

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A Greek Coast Guard helicopter flies over fishing boats trying to rescue refugees and migrants, after a boat carrying more than 200 people sunk while crossing part of the Aegean sea from Turkey, near the Greek island of Lesbos, October 28, 2015.

At least three migrants drowned and the Greek coastguard rescued 242 others when their wooden boat sank north of the island of Lesbos on Wednesday, authorities said. Four other boats sank the same day leaving at least 15 people dead, mainly children, in total.

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A man holds three children wearing thermal blankets after their arrival in bad weather from Turkey on the Greek island of Lesbos , Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015.

With winter fast approaching, the danger grows and more are taking risky journeys.

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Mohammed Hasan, an 18-month-old Syrian toddler, is seen onshore after he was rescued by a Turkish fisherman after a boat of migrants sunk a few miles off the coast of Turkey, October 21, 2015. The boy was reunited with his mother in Turkey after he was revived with CPR.

Nearly 50,000 people have made it to Greece's coast in a few short days, but dozens more have died at sea, including 14 in this incident.

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Migrants protect themselves from the rain as they make their way to Slovenia from Trnovec, Croatia, October 19, 2015.

Thousands of migrants crossed into Slovenia after Croatia closed its frontier, October 19, 2015. Hungary sealed its border with Croatia the previous week. Many refugees are now facing deteriorating conditions as winter approaches.

The Balkans faced a growing backlog of migrants, thousands building up on cold, wet borders after the closure of Hungary's southern frontier diverted them to Slovenia.

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A policeman holds the hand of a young girl as migrants are escorted through Dobova to a holding camp in Dobova, Slovenia, October 22, 2015.

Thousands of migrants marched across the border from Croatia into Slovenia as authorities intensify their efforts to attempt to cope with a human tide unseen in Europe since World War II.

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Croatian riot police officers control the access to a refugee camp as more migrants arrive from the Serbian border on September 22, 2015 in Opatovac, Croatia.

Croatia built a camp to control the flow of migrants to Hungary with a capacity of 4,000 people.

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Hundreds of migrants who arrived on the second train of the day at Hegyeshalom on the Hungarian and Austrian border, walk the four kilometres (2.5 miles) into Austria on September 22, 2015.

Thousands of migrants arrived in Austria over the weekend with more en-route from Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia. Politicians from across the European Union are holding meetings on the refugee crisis September 23, to try and solve the crisis and the dispute of how to relocate 120,000 migrants across EU states.

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Migrants and refugees queue to register at a camp after crossing the Greek-Macedonian border near Gevgelija on September 22, 2015.

EU interior ministers were set to hold emergency talks to try and bridge deep divisions over Europe's worst migrant crisis since World War II, as pressure piles on member states to reach an agreement.

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A local man surveys a huge pile of deflated dinghies, tubes and life vests left by arriving refugees and migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos on September 18, 2015.

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Migrants desperately try and board a train heading for Zagreb from Tovarnik station on September 20, 2015 in Tovarnik, Croatia.

Croatia continues to send buses and trains north to its border with Hungary, as officials have estimated that around 20,000 migrants have entered since September 16.

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The open-door policy of the Croatian government for migrants and refugees lasted just 24 hours. After an influx of an estimated 13,000 migrants and refugees in two days, the country said it could take no more, September 18, 2015.

A baby cries as migrants clamor to board a bus in Tovarnik, Croatia, September 17, 2015. Asylum seekers thwarted by a new Hungarian border fence and repelled by riot police poured into Croatia, spreading the strain.

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Migrants protest at the Tovarnik railway station, Croatia September 18, 2015. Migrants continued to stream through fields from Serbia into the European Union on Friday, undeterred by Croatia's closure of almost all road crossings after an influx of more than 11,000. Helpless to stem the flow, Croatian police rounded them up at the Tovarnik on the Croatian side of the border, where several thousand had spent the night under open skies. Some kept traveling, and reached Slovenia overnight.

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A migrant man remonstrates with security as he and other migrants try to force their way through police lines at Tovarnik station for a train to take them to Zagreb on September 17, 2015 in Tovarnik, Croatia. Migrants are crossing into Croatia from Serbia two days after Hungary sealed its border with Serbia, the majority of them want to reach Germany, amid divisions within the European Union over how to manage the ongoing crisis.

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Migrants force their way through police lines at Tovarnik station to board a train bound for Zagreb on September 17, 2015 in Tovarnik, Croatia. Migrants are diverting to Croatia from Serbia after Hungary closed its border with Serbia, with the majority of them trying to reach Germany amid divisions within the European Union over how to manage the ongoing crisis.

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Migrants wait near the train station in Tovarnik, Croatia, September 17, 2015. Amid chaotic scenes at its border with Serbia, Croatia said on Thursday it could not cope with a flood of migrants seeking a new route into the EU after Hungary kept them out by erecting a fence and using tear gas and water cannon against them.

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Policemen direct migrants during a stampede to board a bus in Tovarnik, Croatia on September 17, 2015. Croatia said it could not take in any more migrants, amid chaotic scenes of riot police trying to control thousands who have streamed into the European Union country from Serbia.

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A migrant taunts Hungarian riot police as they fire tear gas and water cannons on the Serbian side of the border, near Roszke, Hungary, September 16, 2015. The clash occurred after hundreds of migrants, stuck at the sealed border between Serbia and Hungary, protested and tried to break through.

Serbia condemned Hungary's use of water cannon and tear gas against migrants on their border, saying Hungary had "no right" to do so, the Serbian state news agency Tanjug reported.

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An injured migrant carries a child during clashes with Hungarian riot police at the border crossing with Serbia in Roszke, Hungary on September 16, 2015. Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannons at protesting migrants demanding they be allowed to enter from Serbia on the second day of a border crackdown.

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Migrants protest as Hungarian riot police fires tear gas and water cannons at the border crossing with Serbia in Roszke, Hungary, September 16, 2015.

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Hungarian riot policemen escort a migrant woman and a child in Roszke, Hungary on September 16, 2015.

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Hungarian riot police watche from behind a fence as migrants protest on the Serbian side of the border, near Roszke, Hungary September 16, 2015.

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A migrant is hit by a jet from a water cannon used by Hungarian riot police on the Serbian side of the border, near Roszke, Hungary September 16, 2015.

Hundreds of migrants protested the border closure and tried to break through the sealed border.

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Migrants and refugees demonstrate as Turkish police block the road at Esenler Bus Terminal in Istanbul, Turkey on September 16, 2015.

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Migrants and refugees demonstrate as Turkish police block the road at Esenler Bus Terminal in Istanbul, Turkey, September 16, 2015.

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A refugee stands looks through the fence at the Serbian border with Hungary near the town of Horgos on September 15, 2015.

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Hungarian police officers stand in front of a fence on the Serbian side of the border after sealing it near the village of Horgos, Serbia, September 14, 2015, near the Hungarian migrant collection point in Roszke.

Hungarian police closed off the main crossing point for thousands of migrants and refugees entering from Serbia every day.

The number of migrants entering Hungary this year has risen above 200,000, police said September 14. Almost all of the migrants were seeking to travel onwards to western Europe, particularly Germany and Sweden.

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Police check the passports and papers of Syrian migrants at the border check point in the village of Szentgotthard, Hungary on September 14, 2015.

Two decades of frontier-free travel across Europe unravelled as countries re-established border controls in the face of an unprecedented influx of migrants, which broke the record for the most arrivals by land in a single day.

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A policeman guards migrants detained after crossing the border from Serbia near Asttohatolom, Hungary on September 15, 2015.

Hungary's right-wing government shut the main land route for migrants into the EU September 15, taking matters into its own hands to halt Europe's unprecedented influx of refugees while the bloc failed to agree a plan to distribute them.

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Migrants queue to board buses bound for Vienna from Hegyshalom holding center on the Austrian border after Hungarian authorities closed the open railway track crossing in Hegyeshalom, Hungary, September 15, 2015.

Hungary implemented new laws to cope with the influx of migrants which became enforceable on the night of September 14. Since the beginning of 2015 the number of migrants using the so-called 'Balkans route' has exploded with migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey and then traveling on through Macedonia and Serbia before entering the EU via Hungary.

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A railway wagon covered in barbed wire is placed at the Hungarian border with Serbia to stop migrants and refugees near the town of Horgos on September 15, 2015.

Hungarian police closed off the main crossing point for thousands of migrants and refugees entering from Serbia daily.

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Migrants wait on the Serbian side of the border with Hungary in Roszke, September 15, 2015. Hungarian police detained 16 people claiming to be Syrian and Afghan migrants early in the day for illegally crossing the Serbian border fence, a police spokeswoman said, as tough new laws took effect to guard the southern frontier.

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Policemen fix registration bands on the wrists of migrant children at a train station near the border with Austria in Freilassing, Germany September 15, 2015.

A total of 4,537 asylum seekers reached Germany by train September 14 despite the imposition of new controls at the border with Austria, according to the federal police. The arrivals brought the number of asylum seekers who have entered Germany by train since the start of the month to 91,823, a police spokeswoman in Potsdam said.

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A refugee swims towards the shore after a dinghy carrying Syrian and Afghan refugees deflated some 100m away before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos, September 13, 2015.

An estimated 309,000 people have arrived by sea in Greece, the International Organization for Migration (IMO) said September 11, 2015. About half of those crossing the Mediterranean are Syrians fleeing civil war, according to the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.

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Migrants eat at a reception center after their arrival at the main railway station in Dortmund, Germany on September 13, 2015.

Germany re-imposed border controls on September 13 after Europe's most powerful nation acknowledged it could scarcely cope with thousands of asylum seekers arriving every day.

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Migrants wait to board busses in Nickelsdorf, Austria on September 14, 2015.

Thousands of migrants walked unhindered across the border into Austria from Hungary on September 14, where the frontier was kept open despite Germany's sudden reintroduction of checks.

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Syrian refugee Asmaa wipes her tears as she waits for a train on the platform at the main railway station in Munich, September 13, 2015.

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Matteo Renzi, who resigned after the rejection of his referendum on constitutional reform in December, lambasted member states after they pledged to take on more migrants to help ease the pressure on Italy.

Speaking to Rai News, he questioned if it was normal for members to fail to live up to their promises.

He said: We are European citizens convinced of the European dream, but we can not accept everything we are told to do.

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But when it comes to asking Italy for money for the European budget, they are in the front row asking for our contribution to be sent quickly.

The rules are either valid all the time or never. This battle in Europe must not be against Europe, but for theidealof Europe and of course for the interests of Italy.

Speaking about a new book release, he spoke about tackling the migrant crisis.

I wrote in my book, lets help immigrants in their countries of origin it is common sense, he said. It is one of our battles.

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Italy must fight for the restricted number because we cannot continue to welcome all immigrants on our own.

We have to save everyone, give children jus soli [birthright citizenship] or the right to citizenship, and work to get internationalcooperation.

He then called for electoral reform and took a swipe at his rivals for using electoral tricks.

MrRenzisaid: On the electoral law, we want to defeat Berlusconi and Grillo, but we want to do so with the vote of the Italians, not with electoral tricks.

So, if we change the electoral law, we have to change it together.

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According to a poll published Thursday in the Messaggero daily, the idea of ius soli is losing support among Italians, even though such a path to citizenship exists in many other EU countries.

The Latin term ius soli refers to rights linked to the land (where you are born) as opposed to ius sanguinis, where rights are based on blood ties.

Children currently must have at least one Italian parent to enjoy citizenship rights. Those who do not can apply when they turn 18 but rules on time spent out of the country mean some are rejected.

Back in October 41 percent of people polled said they were in favour of ius soli, but now that number has dropped to 32.3 percent.

Italys high-profile battle with Europe over who should deal with the hundreds of thousands of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean and brought ashore since 2014 has sparked a backlash over a proposed bill and even fisticuffs in parliament.

After 15 years of debate, the draft law establishing ius soli was adopted by Italys lower house in 2015. Two years later, after a series of amendments, it is now being debated in the upper house with the support of the centre-left.

The draft law also provides for nationality via ius culturae for children not born in Italy who have spent at least five years in the countrys education system.

Italys anti-immigrant Northern League has slammed the proposal as a cultural mistake. Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi, founder of the centre-right Forza Italia, said it would send the wrong signal to those already attracted to Italys shores.

Making it known that its easier to become Italian will create false hopes in Africa and increase migratory pressures, he warned.

Over 86,000 migrants have arrived so far this year, up over 10 percent compared with the same period in 2016.

800,000 new nationals

The adoption of ius soli would bestow Italian nationality on around 800,000 children immediately, and another 60,000 newborns a year, according to the Italian Institute of Statistics (Istat).

The children born in Italy are Italians and it is the duty of a civilized country to welcome them, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said earlier this week. The proposed bill is also passionately supported by his predecessor Matteo Renzi.

Gentiloni has brushed aside attempts by critics to link the issue of citizen rights to that of national security, saying the way to reduce risk is not through exclusion but dialogue and inclusion.

But with unemployment towering at 11 percent well above the average in the eurozone and soaring to 37 percent among young people, the age-old narrative of foreigners stealing locals jobs has reared its head.

That fear has not been eased by new figures this week showing 4.5 million Italians are living in absolute poverty.

According to Il Messaggero, those polled in Thursdays survey said it would be better to postpone the debate on citizenship rights until after the general election in spring next year.

Italy in 2016 bestowed the highest number of citizenships in Europe at 205,000, up from just 63,000 in 2012.

Adopting ius soli would bring Italy into line with the majority of its European neighbours from Belgium and Britain to France and Portugal where the law already applies in various forms.

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Gnration Identitaire, Identitre Bewegung or the Identitarian Movement/Generation is a pan-European activist youth movement, struggling "to preserve and maintain [European] culture and identity," according to Martin Sellner, one of the founders of the movement's Austrian branch.

The Identitarian Movement has long been accused by various media outlets namely, online publications - that it actually wants to start sea battles with NGO ships and sink boats with immigrants still on them.In 2016, members of the Identitarian Movement in Austria and Germany were responsible for a number of public political stunts in the countries' respective capitals.

In Vienna, the movement's members scaled the city's famous Burgtheater while a pro-immigrant play was being performed inside, hanging a banner which read, "Heuchler" ("Hypocrites") before throwing leaflets from the roof a few days after a 21-year-old Austrian woman was gang-raped by three immigrant men from Afghanistan.

In another instance, activists covered the statue of the Austro-Hungarian Empress Maria Theresa, the last empress of the Habsburg Monarchy, with an Islamic niqab in an act of protest against the "Islamization of Europe."

In Berlin, activists scaled the Brandenburg Gate and hung a banner which read, "Sichere Grenze - Sichere Zukunft" ("Secure borders - Secure future") in full view of the crowd below.

Members of the Identitarian Movement consider the policies of European leaders in nations like France and Germany as indirectly damaging to the integrity of European culture, the direct result of the spike in terrorist attacks over the past two years, putting these activists in direct opposition to any and all proponents of non-European immigration.

The flag which represents the Identitarian Movement features yellow and black colors and the Greek letter Lambda, the symbol of King Leonidas who fought against the Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.

Now, the activists have managed to secure monetary support in the form of 100,000 euros, despite the fact that banks shut down their accounts across the continent. The money was subsequently raised via an American website in order to launch a search and rescue vessel into the Mediterranean Sea as part of the Defend Europe mission that aims to end human trafficking across the sea.

The vessel C-Star is expected to be deployed off the Libyan coast, like numerous other ships sponsored by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have not only rescued immigrants from the turbulent waters of the Mediterranean but have also landed along Libyan shores and picked up immigrants, primarily from sub-Saharan Africa, transporting them to Italy, a highly illegal action.

Members of the movement have several objectives for their mission.

Their first aim is to rescue anyone who is at peril at sea, returning them to their country of origin in accordance with maritime law. They also aim to oversee the movement of NGO ships in the Mediterranean and report their activity to the Libyan and Italian coast guards.

Another important part of their objective is to sink abandoned dinghies left behind by immigrants in the Mediterranean, to prevent these dinghies from potentially drifting back to the North African coastlines where they would likely be reused by human traffickers to smuggle people to Europe again.

According to Sellner, the C-Star vessel is equipped with powerful radars that will be used to track NGO ships violating Libyan national waters and smuggling immigrants directly from the coast.

"Nobody talks about this. The trafficking rings are making millions because of the NGO ships. The presence of NGO ships and fairing the migrants from the Libyan shore to Italy. [] We want to drain their resources by sinking the [abandoned] boats, which is also something that you're obliged to do according to maritime law."

Sellner says that "sea battles" is a laughable scenario.

"Of course we will not attack these [NGO] vessels. We will only be there to oversee the activities of these vessels and to contact the Libyan coast guard if we get an SOS signal, for example. We are obliged to go there and save people by handing out rescuing rings and insuring that they are not in danger. [] We will not engage in any sea battles or things of that nature. We only aim to see that NGO-sponsored vessels do not breach any maritime laws."

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