New pressure on immigrants: majority wants to remove “special protection”

The majority of the Meloni government is considering removing special protection for immigrants. In the Senate, majority groups will actually propose an amendment to the immigration ordinance that proposes removing special protection for asylum seekers. The decision is in the Senate’s Constitutional Affairs Committee and is expected to reach the House on April 18. In order to evaluate how the ongoing protection cases will be handled, the amendment regarding the special protection that is being worked on will be presented at the general assembly.

What do the majority want to do about private protection?

As part of the move of the Cutro ordinance to the Senate, the centre-right majority proposes an amendment to abolish private protection. “The special protection introduced by the former government of Pd-M5s in 2020 is unique in Italy in its current form and over the years an amnesty has become an attraction for immigration. It also creates problems for courts and police departments. So we will reset it, with the conversion of the immigration decree will be removed,” he said.

This is what Nicola Molteni, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, spoke in the framework of the celebrations of the 171st anniversary of the establishment of the State Police. According to Molteni, “Italy already guarantees forms of asylum through two forms of protection, refugee status and subsidiary protection”.

Emanuele Prisco, Under-Secretary of the Interior Ministry, underscored the same vision of special protection: “The so-called temporary permit for illegal immigrants has increased significantly, creating a significant anomaly in Italy that supports illegal immigration.”

“Let’s revoke this protection to fit the rest of Europe, as President Meloni envisioned in the Chambers – explained Prisco. It is needed to establish certain rules. Because on the one hand we really want to protect those who are fleeing wars and those who create regular migration. respond to the needs of businesses and flow The decree goes in that direction, and we mean enough shortcuts in European cooperation with Mediterranean countries to stop exits but irregular migration and in Italy to speed up deportation mechanisms”.

Opposition protests: ‘It would be inhumane’

“While Def writes in black and white that significantly increasing the entry of foreign workers into Italy has strategic value in the perspective of reducing debt relative to GDP, Parliament is making changes to the Cutro decree to increase its number. Riccardo Magi, deputy and secretary of Europe, La7 ‘de told Coffee Break,'” he said.

“For example, if they have an employer ready to hire them, why not give those in Italy the opportunity to regulate themselves?” A few days ago there was click day, the day when entrepreneurs activate their foreign worker requests: not only did 80,000 applications run out in three hours, but 250,000 requests came from entrepreneurs. Faced with this, what does the government expect to change the Bossi-Fini law? Someone should explain this to me, it’s a League obsession. While businesses want more workers, the government expects the state to know what the production system needs. The Magi are in this respect a Soviet majority,” he concluded.

Protests from the Democratic Party also said: “The institution that has allowed thousands of immigrants to integrate and work in recent years will be dissolved, condemning many people to illegality and underground work, to black market and exploitation.” Pd Franco Mirabelli – Removing special protection is a choice that goes against every principle of humanity, but it is a choice that becomes more serious for the reasons stated in the support. Special protection will be the reason that attracts immigrants to Italy. Again, the Government demonstrates its failure to understand the reasons for a phenomenon that has tripled landings, not because of special protection, but because of hunger, wars and human rights violations that have driven us to seek the nearest landing site to enter Europe”.

“We just voted together in the Senate Committee on special protection for Ukrainians that the League is waking up and roaring today – the next day – against special protection. Subtext: normal, we understand each other. Peace with your brain: hypocrisy on the skin some people do not.” Such is the Democratic Party senator Filippo Sensi on Twitter.

The meaning of special protection

Residence permit for special protection was introduced by Law No. 132/2018, and the conditions for release were later extended with the Decree Law No. 130/2020, and the article was amended by transforming into Law No. 173/2022. 19 of the Consolidated Immigration Act (TUI) expands the deportation ban hypotheses. Special protection is granted in cases where it is not possible to remove the foreigner from the territory of the country on the emergence of certain conditions.

In cases where neither refugee status nor subsidiary protection is recognized, the foreigner seeking asylum is granted a “special protection” residence permit, in which case the residence permit is valid for two years. Even if the special protection permit is out of the procedures envisaged for international protection, it can be requested directly from the Police Department by foreign citizens.

A special protection permit is then issued by the Police Department and protects the person from being deported or sent back to a State where he or she may face persecution on grounds of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, language, citizenship, religion, or politics. opinions, personal or social conditions, or risk of being sent back to another State where he is not protected from persecution.

At the same time, any situation where there is good reason to believe that the alien is at risk of being subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or systematic and serious human rights violations is protected if he is deported.

Finally, it explicitly excludes the possibility of the alien’s expulsion from the national territory if the special protection involves a violation of the person’s right to respect for private and family life. In particular, the Administration will have to take into account the family ties of the party concerned, its effective social participation in Italy, the length of stay in the national territory, as well as the existence of family, cultural or social ties with the country. origin.

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