A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI, #209 - I'll take care of the migrant (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

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!

GL

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