How Italy tries to send migrants to detention camps in Albania | DW News

Italy's far-right government has passed a decree it hopes will save its controversial immigration plan that's aimed at deterring migrants by sending them to detention camps in Albania.

Judges in Rome struck down the original plan, ruling that the first batch of asylum seekers shipped to Albania had to be brought back to Italy. That's because their countries of origin were not deemed safe for them to return to.

Under the new decree, the government has shortened the list of countries considered "safe" – excluding Cameroon, Colombia and Nigeria. It's effective immediately, meaning that Rome can repatriate migrants from 19 countries who didn't win their asylum claim.