There are always two sides of the story...
These guys are illegal - once they are accepted and not sent back, there will be 10x more after them.
Europe is getting too tolerant to the immigrants, thus it is overwhelmed by them - most are begging/stealing/selling drugs. Living as a parasite.
Italy was giving away a temporary asylum-seeker document. And them let them go. Of course they will disapear in other Schengen states (no borders). And when they are caught stealing on the train, the police cannot do anything (they don't carry their passports, and do not say which nationality they are - so they don't know where to deport them.
Come on - it is not that difficult to immigrate legally. But ones has to move the a$$ and get a job, fill papers and go through the process. Why bother, if you can pay $2000 and get on a
boat...