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Tunisian immigrants hold pieces of papers with number as they stand in front of an immigrant detention centre in the streets of Lampedusa on February 14, 2011.
Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011

Open quoteAll of us here, we are not asking for anything. We only ask for a possibility to find work in Europe.Close quote

  • A TUNISIAN MIGRANT,
  • one of the 4,000-plus illegal migrants who have crossed the sea from Tunisia to the Italian island of Lampedusa in the past week because of lingering instability in their home country
Photo: ROBERTO SALOMONE/AFP/Getty Images | Source: Reuters