Russian police recently detained over 100 traders at a Moscow food market in what Russian authorities label as a campaign against illegal immigrants, a charge some critics believe to be ethnic cleansing.  The Stuff News reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin administered the order to "protect the ‘native’ population from gangs with ‘an ethnic flavour.’"  

"As a result of our checks, we detained more than 100 people who had violated Russia ’s immigration laws,’ a spokesman for the Federal Migration Service said.  "It was just a routine operation."  Those detained were from Azerbaijan , Kyrgyzstan , Ukrain, and Moldova .  

The day after the raid, many stalls were covered up and the mood amongst traders was mostly one of outrage.  Said an anonymous trader: "People have family, homes, and business here.  If they get deported, they lose it all.  Of course people are scared."  

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The Italian government has designed a proposal that would grant a quota for 1,000 Ghanaians to travel to Italy yearly to work legally. The proposal, which has yet to be presented to the Ghana government for, has been designed to curtail the activities of undocumented immigrants, who resorted to various unauthorized means to travel to that country, according to The Angola Press.