Italy's hard-right government passed a new law Monday to overcome legal opposition to a migrant deal with Albania, as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni accused judges of political bias.

As Italy dispatched a first group of asylum seekers to Albania on Wednesday under a new deal between Rome and Tirana, one eatery in the port town where they arrived found cause for celebration.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s government is pushing through new legislation in a bid to salvage her controversial plan on illegal migration, after a court in Rome blocked her long-delayed program to divert asylum seekers to Albania.