16 May 2007

Immigration Law

Today a public service bus travelling near Novara was hijacked. A police officer was injured and the bus was set on fire. The people who did this were 3 non-Europeans. It’s the umpteenth episode that can be put down to ungoverned immigration and that first damages the immigrants who have gone through all the procedures.
A foreigner who commits crimes or who comes into Italy without going through the procedures must be immediately repatriated.
They must serve their criminal sentence in their own countries. Up until now the laws that have been produced have created insecurity among the citizens, and that will continue until there is application of the principle that whoever comes into Italy must observe the laws without any discussion.
The “be nice to everyone” and “wait-and-see” attitudes of certain parties in the government and in the opposition are generating in public opinion, a refusal to accept foreigners. Rules must be changed before intolerance and racism spread more.
Every day there are news items on the front page about crimes committed by foreigners-without-papers and stories of new boatloads arriving.
It’s obvious that things can’t continue like that for long.
The law must be changed. Anyone who is stopped because they are clandestines cannot then be released with a written instruction to leave.
They should be expelled and repatriated immediately. No more and no less than happens in most western countries.
There’s no point in sending troops to Afghanistan if we cannot first guarantee our national borders.

Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in Justice