Fallout from Unrest in Northern Africa

Five thousand immigrants from Tunisia arrived by boat on Lampedusa last week.  This small Italian island in the Mediterranean, usually a vacation destination, is closer to Africa than Italy, and is used to receiving immigrants from northern Africa.  Lampedusa has approximately six thousand year round residents, and facilities for 850 immigrants.  A ferry carries the immigrants in small groups to Sicily and then onto the Italian mainland.  Some Tunisians have relatives in France and that is their final destination.  Others want to go to Germany.  Italy processes each immigrant and gives him or her 30 days to report back or go home.  This process is not enforced by the Italian government.  The Interior Minister of Italy wants the EU to pay Italy for all this added expense, especially for security.  In the end someone has to pay.  Europe's population will swell.  There are not enough jobs for their own, let alone immigrants arriving on Lampedusa almost weekly or more frequently.  The first group of Tunisian immigrants reportedly were well behaved and marched through the main street with signs thanking the Italian people for their hospitality.  Then there were unconfirmed reports of fires being started in the holding facility, citing inhuman conditions.  How many Egyptians will take the same path, and now Libyans.  There is a fear of al quaeda operatives being among the immigrants.  Revolution and change are needed.  But we will all be affected eventually.