Kean Wong:\nItaly is vowing to come down hard on immigration laws, making illegal immigration a criminal offence and reducing the number of Immigrant camps in the capital. Here\'s more.\n\nRome\'s new mayor pledged to expel 20,000 immigrant criminals and knock down illegal camps put up by mostly eastern European Roma people.\n\n[Gianni Alemanno, Rome\'s Mayor]:\n\n\"We have to face the problem of Roma camps with a tougher and more effective law that can allow us to expel and repatriate people more rigourously.\"\n\nMore than 500,000 Romanians are estimated to live in Italy, a number which Rome says jumped dramatically over the past year.\n\nCrime and immigration were a top issue in the run-up to last month\'s parliamentary election, which Prime Minister Berlusconi overwhelmingly won.\n\n[Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister]:\n\n\"We are working on a security bill that will be very strict but respectful of all the European legislation,\nwe are aware that a just law means that we need to work at the integration of non Italian citizens but at the same time we need to reinforce bilateral cooperation with countries such as Libya and Romania.\"\n\nThousands of illegal immigrants cross over from the shores of Libya to southern Italy every year, usually risking their lives on rough seas in inadequate boats.

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