Immigration dispute shows fault lines in Italy's 5-Star


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  • Friday, 11 Oct 2013

The 5-Star Movement leader and comedian Beppe Grillo looks on as he arrives at the RAI television headquarters in Rome, September 30, 2013. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

ROME (Reuters) - The leader of Italy's 5-Star Movement has criticised party lawmakers for what he says is their lax stance on immigration, an issue that threatens to divide the party that took a quarter of votes in February's deadlocked elections.

The death of hundreds of migrants off Italy's coast last week prompted two 5-Star senators to propose reforming a law - hated by the left - that criminalises irregular immigration.

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