{"id":301311,"date":"2025-01-03T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301311"},"modified":"2025-01-04T06:40:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T06:40:01","slug":"after-two-years-in-power-giorgia-melonis-conservative-government-in-italy-has-managed-to-block-200000-illegal-migrants-from-arriving-in-its-shores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301311","title":{"rendered":"After Two Years in Power, Giorgia Meloni\u2019s Conservative Government in Italy Has Managed to Block 200,000 Illegal Migrants From Arriving in Its Shores"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Serran \u2013 The Gateway Pundit Jan 2, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Having been chosen by POLITICO as \u2018the most powerful person in Europe\u2019<\/a>, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is on a roll.<\/p>\n

And all the accolades she has been receiving \u2013 such as the \u2018Atlantic Council\u2019s Global Citizen Award\u2019<\/a> \u2013 are not given in vain. She remains one of the few viable Western leaders, as Macron, Scholz, Trudeau, and so many others are floundering.<\/p>\n

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Above, illegal migrants helped ashore after being ‘rescued’ in the English Channel. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

As a good example of tangible results by Meloni, today it arose that her government has blocked nearly 200,000 migrants from crossing the Mediterranean to Italy since coming to power two years ago.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, it\u2019s not perfection, since in 2024, 66,000 migrants still reached Italy by sea. But that compares positively with 157,000 in 2023 and 105,000 in 2022.<\/p>\n

Part of the success comes from giving hundreds of millions of euros in aid, trade and investment to Tunisia and Libya.<\/p>\n

Both countries have \u2013 as per the agreement \u2013 endeavored to stop migrant boats from leaving their shores.<\/p>\n

The strategy \u2013 criticized by the inevitable Globalist NGOs \u2013 seems to have drastically reduced the number of illegal migrants who reach Italy.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019It is a positive picture and the numbers bear that out\u2019, said Matteo Piantedosi, the interior minister in the Right-wing government led by Giorgia Meloni. He told La Stampa newspaper: \u2018In 2024, we reduced the number of irregular arrivals by 60 per cent compared to the year before\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Rejected asylum seekers sent back to their home countries increased by 16 per cent to 21,000 repatriations in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Piantedosi] said: \u2018These are the result of targeted policies\u2026 including close cooperation with the police forces of countries of origin and transit, which in two years have resulted in blocking the departure of 192,000 irregular migrants from Libya and Tunisia who were hoping to reach our shores\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Italy and the EU has also promised money to Egypt and Mauritania, for improved border security and tackling the human trafficking of migrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the crackdown, many boats still leave the coast of North Africa and migrants continue to lose their lives when the vessels capsize and sink. [\u2026] Around 700 migrants died in Tunisian waters in 2024, while more than 1,300 lost their lives in 2023, according to Tunisian human rights groups.<\/em><\/p>\n

Italy hopes to further discourage migrants from trying to reach its shores with the construction of two holding centers in Albania. The project, intended to act as a deterrent to economic migrants, was supposed to be up and running several months ago but has been challenged by European and Italian courts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

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If Italian Prime Minister Meloni can dramatically reduce the number of illegal migrants arriving by boat in Italy, why can\u2019t UK Prime Minister Starmer do the same? Or has he been informed that it might jeopardize his career in politics? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":259265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301314,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301311\/revisions\/301314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}