Illegal migrant landings have increased by nearly sevenfold since leftist Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese took over from Matteo Salvini in 2019.
Earlier this week, Ms Lamorgese, a member of the leftist Democratic Party (PD), admitted that she could not stop the wave of new landings of illegal immigrants that continue to arrive on the shores of Sicily.
“Many of the landings on the Sicilian coasts are autonomous, and we cannot stop them. The fight against immigration by sea is very different from that by land,” Lamorgese claimed in comments reported by Italian newspaper Il Giornale.
However, just two years ago, when League (Lega) leader Matteo Salvini served as interior minister in a populist coalition government with the Five Star Movement, he succeeded in dramatically reducing landings to just 4,120 from January 1st to August 10th, 2019.
The number of landings has increased during the same period so far this year to 31,853 — a rise of 673 per cent. Breitbart.
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