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Right’s victory in Italy expected to bring changes to migration

By immigrationprof
 

and for the Washington Post reports on developments in Italy:  

“For years, Giorgia Meloni has railed against Italy’s migration policies, calling them overly lenient and saying they risk turning the country into the `refugee camp of Europe.’

Now that she is Italy’s presumed next prime minister, migration is one of the areas where Meloni can most easily bring in sweeping change.”

“The smart approach is: You come to my house according to my rules,” Meloni, of the far-right Fratelli d’Italia party, said earlier this month in an interview with The Washington Post.

Meloni can be expected to “significantly tighten the doors to one of the European Union’s front-line destinations for undocumented immigrants.”  “[S]he has long made it clear that halting flows of people across the Mediterranean is one of her priorities.”

KJ

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