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An Italian navy ship approaches the port , as Italian authorities transfer 40 migrants with no permission to remain in the country to Italian-run migration detention centers in Albania, in Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)
Italy sends rejected migrants to detention centers in Albania
A group of 40 migrants sent by Italy has arrived in an Italian-run migration center in Albania. Migration experts say it’s the first time a European Union country was sending rejected migrants to a nation outside the EU that is neither their own nor a country through which they had transited.
 
Migrants board an Italian Coast Guard vessel as part of a transfer operation from the asylum processing centers in Albania back to Italy following a court decision in Rome, at the port of Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)
Italy takes back 43 migrants it planned to process in Albania in 3rd failed attempt to keep them out
An Italian navy ship has taken migrants to Italy from asylum processing centers in Albania following a court decision in Rome. It was the third failed attempt by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government to process migrants in the non-EU country.
 
An Italian navy ship approaches the port, as Italy sends 49 more migrants to Albania for processing following earlier court rejections, in Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)
Italy sends 49 more migrants to Albania for processing following earlier court rejections
An Italian navy ship has arrived in Albania with 49 migrants intercepted in international waters for processing of their asylum applications at special Albanian centers.
 
Migrants walk at the port of Shengjin, next to security forces after they disembark from an Italian Navy ship northwestern Albania, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024, while a second group of eight migrants intercepted in international waters is processed in a reception facility despite the failure with the first group in October. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)
Italy sends another 8 migrants to Albania under processing centers deal
An Italian navy ship has arrived at the Albanian port of Shengjin with eight migrants who will be processed there after they were intercepted in international waters.