WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - To address the security and integration problems created by the arrival of migrants in the country, both the right and the left are proposing remedies and strategies, given the resounding failure of the Meloni government's security policies . During the election campaign that brought her to power, Meloni had proposed a naval blockade of the Italian coast to halt migration.

To address the security and integration problems created by the arrival of migrants in the country, both the right and the left are proposing remedies and strategies, given the resounding failure of the Meloni government's security policies . During the election campaign that brought her to power, Meloni had proposed a naval blockade of the Italian coast to halt migration. Like all her electoral blunders, the effort proved a flop, and its only practical outcome was the forced construction of the concentration camp in Albania, which remained in place due to the lack of a legislative framework to support its operation and was essentially underused. Only recently did the Meloni government obtain from the European Union a change in migration policies and consent to the outsourcing of migrants, for deportation to third countries. Despite all this, the flow of migrants has remained constant, if not increased, and Italy continues to be used as a transit country en route to other destinations that constitute the ultimate goal of migration: the living and working conditions immigrants encounter in Italy are too difficult and unrewarding. Those who remain in the country are only those with the most unskilled and poorly educated people, those who, due to extreme poverty or the inability to navigate such a diverse society, are unable to easily find passage to other countries. Often, it is precisely the effort required to raise the resources to continue the journey that throws the most vulnerable migrants into the hands of organized crime, prostitution, and other forms of trafficking, turning them into a source of social conflict. All this occurs while the country's demographics have not changed and the need for migrants is growing dramatically, especially for professions and activities unpopular with Italian workers, but also due to the declining availability of native labor to find the desired, adequately paid work in Italy. It has in fact become much more convenient for young people raised and educated in Italy to emigrate to other countries, armed with a European passport, to find work there with wages and conditions that are certainly more remunerative. The Bossi-Fini law and the subsequent amendments that integrated it, guarantee the system to maintain, even in the event of a decline in new arrivals, that quota of migrants who live

illegally and who can constitute a reserve army of labor slaves who, deprived of rights, are exploited daily and serve to justify repressive anti-immigration policies. Not content with this, following in the footsteps of similar parties and movements developing in other European countries and the United States, far-right groups and parties are calling for the deportation of migrants to their countries of origin or even to third countries, in order to rid themselves of their presence, thus nullifying humanitarian law and the International Convention on Refugees (Geneva Convention of 1951, amended only by the New York Protocol of 1967), whose founding principles of acceptance and solidarity that characterize the measure they abhor.
Thus, from the fight against clandestine and illegal emigration, the rejection of migrants shifts to regular migrants, and even more so to second-generation migrants, accused of having failed or failed to integrate, to the point of demanding their deportation from the country and even the stripping of their citizenship. It never misses an opportunity to turn its attention to anyone who takes a critical stance toward the social fabric to which they belong. As can be seen, all the basic elements of racism are present, and the relational model of an apartheid built on ideological and census grounds seems to flourish.
While the right fantasizes about containment camps for part of the population and denies the universal dimension of rights, the "left" is absolutely inactive, sometimes denying the existence of integration problems, which indeed exist, or abandoning any proposal, except to resort, in the shadows and opaquely, to the most ignoble mediations, such as outsourcing migrant concentration camps to Libya and entrusting their management to human traffickers. The current government maintains a regime of impunity toward these people, returning them to their homeland despite international arrest warrants, as happened with Libyan General Osama Njeem Almasri, former head of the Tripoli judicial police, accused of war crimes and torture. What's missing is a comprehensive proposal to manage their integration.

The "left" and emigration

The "left" has proven incapable of addressing the migration problem by failing to make effective changes to the Bossi-Fini law and related measures, consistent with a migrant integration plan. This is primarily because it lacks a plan to pursue, a vision to realize. The immigration decree should be designed to create a regular and supervised channel of access to the country, but also to identify the type of skills we need and should direct the flow of migrants toward vocational training facilities. The immediate next step should be to ensure that migrant workers are treated equally in terms of wages and regulations as all other workers, so that it is not advantageous to employ migrant workers, thus preventing the dumping of native workers. Such a measure would eliminate the exploitative use of illegal immigrants to keep wages low, eliminating situations of social hatred between the poor and the less well-off.
A land management policy should be implemented to increase the placement of migrants in the most depopulated and rural areas, making available the often abandoned building stock in exchange for housing redevelopment. Local governments should be responsible for avoiding the ghettoization of these citizens by integrating them into the productive fabric and value-based practices taking place in the area. Upon closer inspection, such an inclusion policy could be characterized by economies of scale that would not even require large investments to achieve an effective and genuine reception, inclusive and not demeaning of the values, religions, and customs of these populations. This is demonstrated by numerous examples that remain unknown but can be found locally, especially in southern Italy, such as those of Cammini, Riace, and many other small towns. These have demonstrated that this strategy is possible and feasible, and that the policy of locking up in detention centers (CPT) people who have committed no crime, other than violating an absurd law that regulates migration in Italy, is unrealistic.
What is certain is that without intervention, we are increasingly giving way to those who advocate the deportation of this segment of the population, unaware of the country's demographic impoverishment. This cannot be resolved, at least in the short term, with measures to increase the birth rate, whose effectiveness is inconclusive, especially if the labor market remains unchanged, along with its division into a legal and an illegal market that draws on a reserve army that is constantly renewed thanks to structural dynamics.
Cutting this perverse web of negative conditions that hinder the integration of migrants is certainly harmful to all those involved and runs counter to the country's economic interests. It is also extremely damaging to the "left," which demonstrates a lack of concrete proposals to address the security problem and address the growing xenophobia among a segment of the population, haunted by the security issue.
This lack of solutions and proposals leaves plenty of room for Vannaccian propaganda that suggests deporting migrants, even those who comply with the regulations for granting citizenship and work permits, especially now that the European Parliament has tested the new repatriation legislation that allows for the outsourcing of their detention to facilities located in third countries and increases the prison term to 24 months, extendable, without any charge of crime other than illegal emigration. How the so-called "left-wing" parties can still support the Von der Stupid Commission remains a mystery!

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https://www.ucadi.org/2026/06/27/al-migrante-ci-penso-io/
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