The government of Prime Minister Meloni conducts a alternatively cautious migration policy and tries to avoid conflicts with Brussels. It loses, among another things, the clash with alleged "humanitarian" organizations, which drive hundreds of migrants to Italian ports across the Mediterranean. However, Giorgia Meloni has introduced certain regulations that make specified smuggling more hard and at least slow down specified "rescue actions". He besides builds migrant centers in Albania. However, even specified tiny steps have caused migration to this country to decline, and visitors are now heading more towards Spain and Greece.
The Italian Ministry of the Interior reported that the number of illegal migrants arriving in that country had fallen by 65% since 1 January compared to a akin period of 2023. As of 27 August 2024, 40 138 illegal immigrants landed on the beaches and ports of Italy At the same time, but a year ago the number of "illegals" was calculated at 113,469 people.
The current number is besides lower than in 2022, erstwhile the Italian authorities counted 55,921 visitors from 1 January to 27 August. In particular, the authorities are satisfied with the fourfold decline in the number of single minors who cannot be sent back to their countries of origin.
Such migrants rapidly become a nuisance to all their services, for they frequently take advantage of the impunity that youthful age provides for them in the ways of crime. The number of unaccompanied minors has now fallen to 5044, compared to 18,820 last year.
Data was presented by the MSW Matteo Piantedosi, a close associate and erstwhile advisor to Matteo Salvini, who became the face of the fight against illegal immigration in 2022. Salvini is presently Deputy Prime Minister.
Limiting immigration was a precedence of Meloni and Salvini's cabinet from the beginning. However, the effects of the government come only after a long time. The diplomatic efforts of Giorgia Meloni, who signed cooperation agreements with the countries of North Africa, Tunisia and Libya, are besides positive. Cooperation with Mediterranean countries in Africa besides increased the number of "repatriations" of illegal immigrants. "Il Giornale" reported that in 2024 more than 9,000 "illegalists" were extorted from Italy, including at least 5 000 to Libya and nearly 4 000 to Tunisia.
It is besides done by the “spiker” and the news that has spread among immigration candidates that Italy has tightened its policy and conditions for accepting fresh arrivals. In this case Meloni succeeded in what British Prime Minister Sunak and the ruling Conservatives had not yet introduced. With the coming to power in the UK Labour Party, ideas limiting serious immigration have already been thrown into the basket. Let us remind you that the migrants from England were to go to Rwanda, but that's in the past.
In the meantime, Italia, despite akin difficulties as in the case of the UK (threats of processes, global opposition), is completing the construction of reception centres for migrants in Albania. The Italian Ministry of the Interior hopes that they will be opened by the end of August. The fact that it is possible to go to Albania alternatively of Italy and the EU, it acts as a deterrent for candidates going to Europe.
In the meantime, Italy has besides introduced a tightening of penalties for migrant smugglers and the captains of the units that deliver them. The granting of the right of residence shall no longer take into account the possible household ties of illegal immigrants to persons legally residing in Italy. The right to work of asylum seekers has besides been reduced. Rome is besides trying to better control the activities of non-governmental organisations which, under the slogans of humanitarianism, deal with human trafficking.
The affirmative effects of a policy to tighten migration rules in Italy are peculiarly evident from Spain, where the left inactive governs. This only marks a “fight in migration”. At the same time, the number of migrants in Spain increased by 155% and in Greece by 222%. The Socialist Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez goes a small differently. He wants his migrants first and foremost, citing the emergency situation, deploying the EU as a full and citing the European Pact for Asylum and Immigration. He forgets, however, that this situation has led to ideological laxism of his formation and deficiency of concrete action. Migration is, in fact, a hope for a large part of the European Left for profound social change, and a multicultural society is to counterbalance the "nationalisms" of the Old Europe countries. It's an ideological project. No wonder that any parties and left-wing organizations support immigration.
Bogdan Dobosh
Immigration. Can pagan Europe be killed? How about a fresh barbarism?
