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Officials say it was not yet clear whether the 24-metre-long ship, which arrived in the port of Licata just before midnight, came from Libya or somewhere else in northern Africa. 21 women and 7 children were aboard. Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's centre-left government has sought to speed passage to citizenship of immigrants who enter the country legally or who have regularised their position. In 2005, nearly 23,000 illegal immigrants reached Italy, some 8,000 more than in 2004. The biggest wave of immigration came in the early 1990s, when thousands of Albanian refugees fled to Italy.
