The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, is convinced of the need to take legal action on the immigration issue, in compliance with the principle that inspired the “Bossi-Fini” law. The head of the government gave a briefing to the Council of Ministers, anticipating that in the first meeting immediately after the G7 the government will move from words to actions with an ad hoc law. Evident “distortions” have emerged from the analysis of the data referring to the last two flow decrees, launched by the Meloni government in December 2022 and September 2023. It is urgent to take action.
“From some regions, above all Campania – highlighted the Prime Minister – we recorded a number of applications for work authorization for non-EU citizens, during the click day, totally disproportionate compared to the number of potential employers, be they individuals or businesses An even more worrying fact – continues Meloni – is that given the exorbitant number of applications for authorization, only a minimal percentage of foreigners who obtained a visa for work reasons on the basis of the ‘Flussì Decree’ actually signed a work contract. work in Campania, less than 3% of those who enter with a permit then sign an employment contract”. One is highlightedsignificant gap However, between the number of people entering Italy for work reasons and the work contracts that are actually signed, it is a characteristic that many Italian regions have in common, albeit with less frightening numbers”.
For the Italian Government these numbers mean one specific thing: “I regular flows of immigrants come for work reasons used as a further channel for irregular immigration. It means that, reasonably – the Prime Minister continues – the organized crime it infiltrated the management of applications and the flussì decrees were used as a mechanism to allow access to Italy, through a formally legal and risk-free route, to people who would not have been entitled to it, probably upon payment of sums of money. According to some sources, up to 15,000 euros per case.”
Visa buying and selling
“The hypothesis of criminal infiltration – underlines Meloni – seems supported by the fact that the vast majority of foreigners who entered Italy in recent years using the ‘Flux Decree’ come from a single State, the Bangladeshwhere diplomatic authorities speak of phenomena of visa buying and selling for work reasons.
The Bangladeshis, I remember, are also the first nationality of illegal immigration in the first five months of this year, and this presupposes a strong connection between criminal organizations operating in the country of departure and criminal organizations operating in the country of arrival”.
