Laura Boldrini shoots zero at the Meloni government on the issue of dealing with the immigration problem. And he does it from the pages of L’Avvenire and then puts the link to the interview granted to the newspaper on his Twitter profile.
The interview
The former representative of Leu speaks of the Legislative Decree of January 2, 2023 n. 1, ie the one that contains urgent provisions for the management of migratory flows, stamping it as “Shipwreck Decree‘ and declared himself convinced that it is a provision that cannot be modified in any way and must therefore be definitively eliminated without the possibility of mediation. “Withdraw this decree immediately. The law of the sea is meant to save lives, you cannot obscure principles as old as mankind,” comments Boldrini. “You can’t undo the values that are in our country’s DNA: generosity, hospitality.”
The parliamentarian does not even like the name of the decree. “It’s a mysterious definition, flow management is something else. It amends the bossi-fini law, it identifies sponsors for job searches, it issues a flow decree responding to the demands of the productive world, it makes agreements with the countries of origin. With this decree,” said the former president of the chamber, “something else is being done: shipwrecks are becoming a means of stemming arrivals.”
The attack on the executive branch
Boldrini points the finger at the government and against the decree in question, the result of which, according to the former Leu, is “more dead and fewer arrivals.” “And the government’s anger at NGOs is dramatic. I call this decree ‘shipwrecks’ because forcing a rescue ship to travel a thousand kilometers before entering port is just depriving the sea of rescuers.” But Boldrini also has a very personal explanation for the reason behind this Decision ready.” They want to divert public opinion from issues that require immediate answers. We have to curb inflation, deal with collapsing productivity, curb high gas prices and high bills,” said the parliamentarian, “there are problems that are shaking the country and instead, because they don’t know how to deal with them, they use them immigration as diversionary weapon“.
Increase funds
The exponent of the Democratic Party also provides his recipe for overcoming the problem, which cannot be done without the establishment of a “European rescue mission. A ‘mare nostrum’ with ships from EU member states”. The fact that only Italy is open in the end does not matter, also because, according to Boldrini, the fact that the receiving facilities in our country they are collapsing. “The associations I just met tell me that’s not true,” the former chamber spokesman continued, “between 10 and 20 percent of the places are still free in the municipalities.”
But for Boldrini, the space for migrants is not enough. And in order to make them grow, it is necessary to encourage, with additional funds, associations that have recently stopped participating in tenders. “Hospitality becomes almost impossible. Many associations no longer participate in tenders, tenders are abandoned,” he concludes, “and that’s because the figure that they give for the administration of the centers are not even enough to cover the necessary expenses. We have to act here too.”
The more dead, the less you arrive. Here is the result of the government’s shipwreck decree.
A rule that violates all international conventions. It must be withdrawn immediately.
Not knowing how to deal with real emergencies, the executive branch uses immigration as a diversionary weapon https://t.co/nGOvAJol5B
– Laura Boldrini (@lauraboldrini) January 14, 2023