Come la Meloni ha inondato silenziosamente l’Italia di migranti

In the rolling hills north of Rome, two Indian migrants shovel hay towards a row of hungry Friesian cows.
Parwinder Singh, 21, and Beant Singh, 44, are a long way from the parched fields and scattered villages of their native India after being taken on by an Italian dairy farmer.
“At home, every family keeps a cow or two, so I am used to looking after animals,” Parwinder said in broken English.
“Italy is a very good country. Here there are opportunities, there is work – not like at home in the Punjab. I miss my parents, but I’m happy to be here.”
They are the latest beneficiaries of a migration policy quietly introduced by Giorgia Meloni’s government to allow nearly half a million migrants to legally come to Italy over the next three years.
The scheme appears paradoxical – at odds with Ms Meloni’s uncompromising stance against illegal migration.
She has forged controversial deals with North African nations to stop migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean, built a detention centre in Albania from which to send failed asylum seekers back to their home countries and threatened to impose a total naval blockade to stop illegal migrants from reaching Italian soil.
The strict policies have helped Ms Meloni establish herself as one of Europe’s toughest leaders when it comes to combating unauthorised migration.
And yet, her coalition government has decided to allow in almost 500,000 non-EU migrants into Italy.
Why? Because Italy’s demographic crisis that has meant there are labour shortages that fail to meet industry demands. “It’s quintessential Meloni,” said one expert, pointing to how she is very tough on unauthorised migrants but practical enough to realise Italy needs migrants if they come through legal channels.
Migrants such as Parwinder have benefited from the Italian prime minister’s pragmatic approach.
The 21-year-old Indian arrived in Italy a few months ago to work on Dante Picotti’s farm, where 220 cows produce 3,500 litres of milk each day that is used to make the nation’s famous fior di latte cheese.
Parwinder said he felt curiously at home in the rural property, which lies among green hills and woodland near a volcanic lake, Lago di Bracciano, an hour’s drive north of Rome.
He’s been taught how the farm works by Beant Singh, a fellow Punjabi who lives on the property with his 35-year-old wife and their 9-year-old son.

Their employer, Mr Picotti, is thrilled with Ms Meloni’s policy – as are employers across Italy’s sectors struggling with labour shortages, from agriculture to tourism.
“Young Italians don’t want to do this work,” Mr Picotti said. “They’re too mollycoddled. They stay at home until they are in their thirties, having their meals cooked and their laundry done for them.
“The Indians, by contrast, are serious people. They work hard, they are diligent, they are respectful. If you ask them to turn up for work at 6am, they turn up at 6am on the dot – not 6.30am. They never get angry with the animals. They always stay calm – that’s important for milk-producing cows.”
Under the Meloni legal migration scheme, Mr Picotti has now requested the services of a third Indian worker who he hopes will arrive by April.
“The government has understood that there’s a need for these foreign workers. And they are streamlining the whole process of allowing them to come into the country. They have made it faster and easier,” he said.

It’s a net positive for Meloni because the corporations and farm cooperatives who need this cheap labour are not affected and Meloni can keep her stay in power by saying they are tackling the rising migration

She finds herself right at the point where the GOP used to be in the mid 2010s. Anti-immigrant rhetoric saturating the waves, but big business and agro-food in the background saying “don”t even think about mass explusion”.

MAGA solved the dilemma by saying fuck business, fuck reality, fuck the rule of law, fuck the constitution, fuck humanity, make them suffer. I suspect this is the way the Lega will try to distance itself from FdI for next elections, by presenting themselves as the ones that will do the “cleaning” for real.

Gotta keep those wages low to maximize corporate profits I guess.

Most Italians don’t want **illegal** immigration. They don’t want boatloads of people coming illegally, who can’t be legally employed and are unskilled, so they end up selling stuff in a mall parking lot (best case) or drugs (worst case).

These 500k people are coming with a contract, and they respond to specific labor demands.

Lmao. Every right wing populist i eu does the same

Interesting how in almost every country it was a party somwhere on the right that brought the Most imigrants but everyone is blaming the left for it, for example:

– UK – Tories (Centre Right)

– Germany – CDU/CSU (Centre Right)

– Italy – Fdl (Far Right)

– Poland – PiS (Right wing Populists)

– France – Les Republicans (Centre Right)

Lmao Orban did the same. Talks big about being anti-immigration, yet you cant walk 100 meters in Budapest without seeing a migrant worker form SE-Asia.