Posted on 06/03/2018 5:13:34 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
'Get ready to pack your bags,' Italy's interior minister tells migrants
Latest update : 2018-06-03 Italy's new hardline interior minister Matteo Salvini will be in Sicily Sunday to push the anti-immigration platform that propelled him to power at one of the country's main landing points for refugees.
The head of the far-right League is on the road seeking to rally support for his party's candidates in municipal elections later this month, as part of a broader effort to boost the traditionally secessionist party's profile in the country's poorer south.
But immigration is Salvini's primary bugbear and the newly minted deputy prime minister in Italy's populist coalition government has added a stop in migration hotspot Pozzallo.
The port town in Sicily's south is on the front line: one of the main places where military and humanitarian boats bring refugees fleeing war, persecution and famine across North Africa and the Middle East.
A controversial agreement between Italy's former centre left government and authorities and militias in Libya has triggered a fall in overall arrivals of some 75 percent since the summer of 2017. But since the start of this year, Italian authorities have registered more than 13,500 arrivals.
The latest came late Friday, just hours after Salvini took his oath of office, with some 158 people, including nine children, landing in Pozzallo after being rescued by a humanitarian boat in an operation coordinated by the Italian coast guard.
Salvini had said after being sworn in that he would ask his ministry's experts "how to reduce the number of arriving migrants and increase the number of expulsions".
"The good times for illegals is over -- get ready to pack your bags," he said Saturday at a rally in Italy's north.
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Very much doubt there will be actual deportations. If anything the Italian Navy will save more migrants trying to cross the Med this summer. The Italians talk much but accomplish very little.
Make Italia Great Again
Racist. /sarc
All-expenses-paid one-way trip to the shores of Tripoli.
“refugees fleeing war, persecution and famine”. Why can’t these refugees use the American model that was established over 200 years ago instead of living off of the teat of another country?
And why is it always the “far right” in these articles?
That is a rhetorical question that we at FR know the answer to.
As usual the media characterizes a man who stands up for his country, leading the charge to keep the African and Muslim scum of the planet, from turning Italy into another shithole, as FAR RIGHTWING.
Yes, and invasion is NOT immigration.
Basta!
Scopa nuova scopa bene! (A new broom sweeps clean).
Perhaps the Italian Navy will see which side their garlic bread is buttered on - search more aggressively than ever, rescue the “migrants”, but then return them to their homes.
The media’s jealous. Being Far Right is only for the cool people and they don’t qualify.
The new government offers the hope of real change but it won’t come easy.
Nigel Farage put out a new video reminding the new Italian government to be strong because the “bully Boys” will be coming after them.
And the migrants themselves don't really want to spend any more time in Italy than they have to. They're trying to get to Germany, France, Britain, and Sweden where the freebies are.
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“The good times for illegals are over — get ready to pack your bags,” newly-elected Savini said at a rally in Italy’s north.
Forza!
The Italians have every right to stay Italian.
It is NOT racist to expect this.
It is national suicide to allow unlimited immigration.
I wish the rest of Europe comes to understand this.
Just stop rescuing them and they will stop coming. Of course it will never stop until force is used.
Yeah, it is our club and they ain’t in it! ( Thank you Mr Carlin) LOL
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