Inside Italy’s answer to the Rwanda migrant scheme in Albania

The Italian navy began deporting migrants to a new offshore processing centre in Albania on Monday, signalling the start of a model eagerly watched by Britain and much of Europe struggling with migration. Migrants, some of whom were intercepted in small boats in the Mediterranean, were ferried form the mainland to a port where they would be processed before being detained in new centres where their applications for asylum will be assessed. The Telegraph visited the newly-built facilities on Monday before the first arrivals docked. On a tour organised by the Italian foreign ministry, reporters were shown neat, white rows of cabins for processing and a sprawling holding centre with 20ft-high wire fences, resembling a prison. The first batch of migrants and refugees were on their way to the Adriatic port after being picked up at sea by the Libra, an Italian navy ship. Read more here: