A flotilla of migrant boats from Tunisia overwhelms an Italian island and tests Meloni's policy

A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia is overwhelming a tiny Italian island south of Sicily. The arrival of more than 100 rickety iron boats that converged on Lampedusa in just over 24 hours was taxing the ability of coast guard and border police to intercept them offshore on Wednesday. Dozens of migrants eluded authorities by climbing up Lampedusa's rocky shores on their own. The migrants came in great numbers with at least 6,800 of them.