How Giorgia Meloni Bowed to the Mass Immigration Power By Richard Miller
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, was elected for being a hard-liner on immigration, the “turn back the boats,” type. But this year over 100,00 illegals have arrived in Italy, and conservatives and those from the Right who formerly supported her, have become somewhat sour with her, and rightly so. She has failed to put into place measures that she promised, to block boat landings, and establish offshore reception centres to evaluate asylum applications. These measures could easily have been put into place, so the logical inference to make is that the globalists have got to her and neutralised her, just as was done to Donald Trump during his presidency. Trump could easily have secured the US border, but did not move.
This is an illustration of the sheer power that the globalist elite wield, and the difficulty we face, but not impossibility, in defeating them. We must fight even harder.
https://rmx.news/italy/italian-pm-meloni-under-fire-as-illegal-immigration-soars-to-new-highs/
“Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is under pressure to deliver on her electoral pledge to curb illegal immigration after embarrassing figures published this week by her country’s interior ministry revealed more than 100,000 migrants have landed on Italian shores so far this year.
A total of 101,386 migrants landed on Italian islands or the mainland between Jan. 1 and Aug. 16, more than double the 48,000 who arrived in the same period last year, and almost triple the 34,556 landings recorded in 2021.
With migrant activity in the Mediterranean showing no sign of slowing down, the right-wing Italian government runs the very real risk of overseeing a record number of arrivals in a single year, surpassing the 180,000 arrivals recorded at the peak of the migrant crisis in 2016.
This is despite promises from Italian conservatives to install stricter border controls, block boat landings, and establish offshore reception centers to evaluate asylum applications.”
“Before becoming Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni was one of the most strident voices on migration in the European Union. As an opposition politician, she warned darkly of efforts to substitute native Italians with ethnic minorities and promised to put in place a naval blockade to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
During her time in office, she has taken a markedly different tack — presiding over a sharp spike in irregular arrivals and introducing legislation that could see as many as 1.5 million new migrants arrive through legal channels.
Meloni’s legal migration decree estimates Italy needs 833,000 new migrants over the next three years to fill in the gap in its labor force. It opens the door to 452,000 workers over the same period to fill seasonal jobs in sectors like agriculture and tourism as well as long-term positions like plumbers, electricians, care workers and mechanics.
“This is a super pragmatic behavior,” said Matteo Villa, a migration expert at the ISPI think tank in Italy. “There has been a change in narrative.”
Given Italy’s rules on family reunification, which allow residents to bring in relatives, “it’s easy to predict that over something like 10 years, these figures will triple,” bringing in about 1.5 million migrants, said Maurizio Ambrosini, a professor of sociology and an expert on migration at Milan’s university.
Meloni government’s, he added, “has been pushed to implement a more realistic policy” by the entrepreneurial class that makes up an important part of its support.
Nicola Procaccini, an MEP close to Meloni who is also the co-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, to which Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party belongs, denied any change of line: “{snip} There is no such thing as a nation that can do without a moderate amount of migration but it must be little, sustainable and governed.”
Meloni’s about-turn hasn’t gone unnoticed by her allies on the right, especially in the far-right League Party that’s part of her coalition government.
“Where did the Prime Minister Meloni who was saying ‘naval blockade’ go?” asked Attilio Lucia, a member of the League and the deputy mayor of Lampedusa, the tiny island where most migrants arrive. “I hoped….now that we finally have a right-wing government the situation would change … but the right is getting worse than the left.””
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