ITALY IN CRISIS

Italy is just another of the nations on the front lines of Europe’s migrant crisis.

Immigrant ghettos have sprung up along the length of the Italian peninsula, home to a significant portion of the hundreds of thousands of mostly African migrants that have streamed into Italy over the last three years.

During 2017, immigration into Italy made up 64 % of total immigration into Europe, and nearly all of those migrants ended up staying in Italy rather than moving north, in large part because of tightened northern Italian border controls by France, Switzerland and Austria. 

Rather than integrating into Italian society, these hundreds of thousands of migrants have congregated in “camps” and neighborhoods.

 The dangers of these immigrant conclaves are not limited to the very real threat of crime or violence that some migrants pose for citizens. They are also a serious danger for the migrants themselves, who often become victims of exploitation, violence and even slavery.

Consider the countries they are coming from. Nigeria plays a key role in supplying prostitutes to Italy, often through deceit and threats of violence. Currently, half of the prostitutes working in Italy are Nigerians and roughly 80 per cent of Nigerian women who migrate to Italy wind up in prostitution. From 2014 to 2016, more than 12,000 Nigerian girls and women arrived in Italy; of these, four out of five wound up in prostitution.

There is a tendency to jump to accusations of xenophobia and racism as soon as objections to mass migration are put forward. 

Yet, Italian citizens have fundamental legal rights as citizens of a sovereign country, rights which should protect them from such unfettered and uncontrolled immigration which threatens their very culture and way of life.

Sadly, politicians have thrived on the divisions among the electorate between “pro-immigration” and “anti-immigration” citizens, yet do nothing to alleviate the situation which is increasingly out of control of the government.

It is relatively easy to know where to start: by securing sovereign borders and screening those who seek to immigrate to ensure they will be productive citizens, willing to assimilate the values of their new homeland.

While the Italian Parliament and the Church continue to ignore the grim statistics, the future of Europe and Western Civilization itself is on the edge of extinction.