http://www.workpermit.com/news/2006_07_04/europe/illegal_immigrants_ignored.htm
"It is thought that a majority of illegal immigrants in Italy are exploited in the black economy yet the government spends a significant amount of money every year in ineffective expulsion measures rather than investing in their integration, a report recently released says. The study on illegal immigration in Italy, carried out by a think tank of Catholic charity Caritas in cooperation with the Italian interior ministry, showed that only 44 percent of the 117,000 illegal immigrants apprehended by police in 2005 were expelled from the country."