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"Amnesties for illegal immigrants are counter-productive as they merely fuel further immigration, Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said. Speaking on the fringes of a ministerial summit in Brussels, Pisanu said mass amnesties regularizing the status of foreigners living illegally in a country sent out the wrong signal ."
