{"id":185193,"date":"2019-03-15T07:28:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T07:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185193"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:00:56","slug":"how-to-win-on-immigration-italys-salvini-shows-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185193","title":{"rendered":"How to Win on Immigration: Italy\u2019s Salvini Shows the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guillaume Durocher \u2013 The Unz Review March 14, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Matteo Salvini. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Really and truly, I did not expect the most promising developments in West-European politics to come from Italy. Who could predict that the strange government appointed in June 2018 \u2013 an uneasy alliance of nationalists under Matteo Salvini\u2019s Lega and the populist-but-vague Five-Star Movement \u2013 would last as long or achieve as much as it has? Italy\u2019s parliamentary regime is notoriously unstable, governments falling with unnerving regularity, and yet this strange hybrid has gone from strength to strength.<\/h5>\n
The globalists \u2013 notably the EU institutions and the various migrant NGOs, many supported by George Soros\u2019 Open Societies Foundation \u2013 had adopted a criminal policy whereby the goal of their operations was not to reduce<\/em> illegal immigration but to \u201csolve\u201d the problem by \u201crescuing\u201d migrants at sea, even if they barely left the coast of North Africa, and breaking down Europe\u2019s external and national borders.<\/h5>\n
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Locations of so called EU ‘rescue operations’. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The Italians, suffering from the crushing burden of supporting an endless wave of economically useless and often violent African migrants, rebelled against this. In fact, the decline in migration had already begun under the previous center-left government, which had grown increasingly frustrated with the NGOs. In July 2017, Interior Minister and \u201cLord of Spies\u201d Marco Minniti began the crackdown on NGOs which, in conjunction with other efforts, led to a sharp decline in illegal immigration by the end of the year. In this sense, the successful crackdown on illegal immigration has been possible as part of a national consensus that the country could not cope and had to actually address the root of the problem.<\/h5>\n
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Illegal immigrants arriving in Italy by sea from 2016 to 2018. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The overwhelming majority of immigration to Western nations is occurring because our governments are willingly<\/em> allowing this happen, permanently changing the population against the will of their own citizens and people.<\/h5>\n
Since coming to power as interior minister, Salvini has built on the previous government\u2019s efforts: preventing any return to previous levels (the social-democrats had not been firm on this) and further reducing<\/em> illegal immigration to negligible levels. For this, his efforts must be saluted.<\/h5>\n
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Illegal immigrants arriving in Italy for the January-March 11 periods of each year. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Furthermore, Salvini has adopted a much more confrontational attitude than his predecessors. Whereas the center-left was always embarrassed to have to take the \u201cheartless\u201d measures necessary to enforce Italy\u2019s immigration laws and stop the invasion, Salvini has made a media spectacle of every step, rubbing the media-political elite\u2019s faces in his successes. His popularity has only grown as a result.<\/h5>\n
This certainly has not been easy for Salvini. The elites hate him just as elites across the West hate all Western nationalists. Salvini has furthermore innumerable enemies among the old and decadent ruling class in Europe. When Salvini suggested that he wants to \u201chelp Italians to make more children\u201d rather than import Africans, Jean Asselborn, the baby-boomer foreign minister of Luxembourg \u2013 a glorified tax haven \u2013 was so enraged that he was reduced to shouting obscenities<\/a><\/span>: \u201cMerde alors !<\/em>\u201d<\/h5>\n
Many Catholic Church officials have turned against Salvini, including the archbishop of Milan and the Catholic weekly Familia Cristiana<\/em> (who, though claiming to be good Christians, apparently have no problem with Europe, the heartland of Christendom, becoming an Islamic land, as happened to the formerly Christian Roman Middle East and North Africa centuries ago).<\/h5>\n
Fittingly for the land which produced the poet-politician Gabriele d\u2019Annunzio<\/span><\/a>, Salvini has not been averse to mixing artistry with politics. One American magazine got worked up<\/a><\/span> because he quoted the American poet Ezra Pound:<\/h5>\n
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Buona giornata Amiche e Amici!
\u201cSe un uomo non \u00e8 disponibile a correre qualche rischio per le proprie idee, o le sue idee non valgono nulla o \u00e8 lui che non vale nulla\u201d.
Ezra Pound pic.twitter.com\/pK2CbABqBA<\/a><\/p>\n

— Matteo Salvini (@matteosalvinimi) March 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n