Link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/02/how-meloni-quietly-flooded-italy-with-migrants/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_photo_quietly-flooded-italy-with-migrants%2F

She has forged controversial deals with North African nations to stop migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean, built a detention centre in Albania from which to send failed asylum seekers back to their home countries and threatened to impose a total naval blockade to stop illegal migrants from reaching Italian soil.

The strict policies have helped Ms Meloni establish herself as one of Europe’s toughest leaders when it comes to combating unauthorised migration.

And yet, her coalition government has decided to let in almost 500,000 non-EU migrants.

Why? Because Italy’s demographic crisis that has led to labour shortages.

The eternal contradiction of right wing parties. They gain votes with anti-immigrant rhetoric, but then they realize that the capitalist economy would crumble in a week without cheap immigrant labor (that is not available nationally, due to falling birth rates).

Italy also has a massive problem of illegal employment, that is not reported to the government for tax evasion purposes, and workers get doubly fucked, since their welfare contributions are not paid. Immigrants are an easier to exploit group for this purpose.