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Italy Proposes Two Year Immigration Ban: Leftists Whine
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Immigration; Posted on: 2008-11-20 15:24:31 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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Translated from Spanish:
According to a law projection, it would prevail between 2009 and 2010.
The measurement, without precedents in Europe, is a reaction to the
global economic crisis. Although it looks to contain labor
imbalances, it express the serious recession that affects the
country.
By: Julio Alga6naraz
The minister of the Interior, Maroni Robert, announced yesterday in the
Parliament his support to the initiative of North Liga - of which he
comprises to close by two years the Italian borders to the entrance of
immigrants. In case the new law of security that has entered the Senate
approves with this amendment, Italy will become the first European
country that takes this extreme measurement. North Liga, whose leader
is minister Umberto Bossi, often has been accused of xenophobe, racist
and separatist.
The catholic weekly magazine Christian Family, the sold magazine more
of Italy, said yesterday in an editorial that the propose law “is
unworthy of a State of right”.
“The economic situation that involves to Italy and the other countries
of the world demands a kind evaluation of the policies ligatures to the
world of immigration”, said Maroni before Deputies. “Until a few months
ago it was possible to be thought about coming like in the years last
with the decrees that establish the flows of new extracommunity
citizens, with regulating work permission”. But the crisis has changed
the situation - it added and “a moratorium of two years to the
immigratory flows would be useful”.
Maroni justified exceptional the restrictive measures in the necessity
to return to give a use to the regular immigrants who are losing their
work by the big wave of dismissals motivated by the economic crisis.
Italy is in recession from April and the next year will diminish its
productive activity at least in a 1%, according to the estimations.
The minister said that the decision would not be a new one because in
2004 the European Commission decided the same when the Union expanded
from 15 to 25 countries. But the reality is different. What it was
suspended - and only some countries they applied the measurement was
the free movement of people in the European space on the part of the
new communitarian citizens, who had like before requesting the work
permissions. Now however, by two years the borders would be closed
hermetically.
Maroni said that “stop to immigration” would be applied in 2009 and
2010, because they are already in force the 170 thousand income by this
year. The minister noticed that the closing of the borders to the
extracommunity ones could even be applied “without the approval of a
law”.
North Liga of Umberto Bossi, of that Maroni is its second and
apparently its successor, also introduced in the project of security
law the creation of “rounds” of citizens to control the order at local
level. This initiative has brought about many competing critics, of
catholic sectors and until of the same majority of centroderecha. North
Liga promoted years ago these neighbor groups who take a walk all the
nights dressed in green shirts, the colors of Liga, in the northern
cities, requests documents, mainly controls the foreigners. “Citizen
they are armed only of good will” that they cooperate with the Police,
Maroni two days ago said.
In the city of Treviso, famous by the “sheriffs” of North Liga, an
unexpected ally arose from left for Bossi and Maroni. The regional
secretary of the CGIL of the Véneto, Emilio Viafora, supported the
decision to block by two years the borders to the entrance of new
regular workers. “It is necessary to protect to that already they are
here and they are losing the uses because if no, once they remain
without work, runs the risk of being expelled”, Viafora said.
In Italy there are 3.5 million regular foreigners, the double that for
six years. The progress of the call “racially mixed Italy”, inevitable
because the Italians have in average 1.5 children and the country ages
quickly, badly is tolerated by the Italians. Old and old hundreds of
thousands of are accompanied all the day by recruited domestic
personnel between the foreigners, “the badantes” calls.
A sounding that will be known today in Corriere della Sera indicates
that 85% of the citizens of the Peninsula do not want that more
foreigners enter. Racism and the xenophobia than in the other European
countries grow more. More of 60% of the Italians they consider “a
danger for the security” the presence of foreigners and 68% think that
“the majority is clandestine”, which is totally false. The intolerance
towards the foreigners, mainly for poorest and of dark skin, ends every
day more at episodes of physical and psychic violence against the
immigrants, who are indispensable for the Italian life. They bloom you
soothe facist and until Nazis. The tomb of dictator Benito Mussolini in
Predappio, its native town in Romagna, has become to put fashionable
and many young people are going to venerate their memory. The rejection
of immigration and racism and the xenophobia are parallel phenomena.
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News Source: EAU overseas correspondent
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