(by Marco Zacchera) The idea of regularizing 600.000 illegal immigrants (1% of the Italian population) because "they are exploited and work illegally" is rather surprising and full of political unknowns.
First of all, it is not clear how 600.000 people who are not in good standing can easily be around, but - having ascertained this distressing truth - I wonder why we should not proceed in the meantime and in any case to a simpler but more decisive action to hit the exploiters of these people by restoring legality and avoiding their shameful exploitation.
If part of these people last year already had a residence permit for seasonal work, they were obviously ALWAYS exploited and the problem is not solved BY MULTIPLICING THE PERMITS but REQUIRING the employers to observe the rules!
I share Minister Teresa Bellanova (whose threatened resignation lasted two blinks). "We need to decide which side to take: whether with legality and job protection, in agriculture and everywhere, or with the corporals, crime, unfair competition that damages the thousands of companies that choose healthy competitiveness".
Good minister, but it is not that the day after their "regularization" these people would no longer work illegally, and the proof is given and confirmed by the millions of Italian citizens who in any case actually escape regular work and continue undeterred to work illegally. .
Ridiculous then now think THAT THE SAME COMPANIES SHOULD BE ARRANGED: If they have not done so in the past, it is not probable that they "self-report" now!
So the real problem is first of all to hit the illegality and if this reaches its peak in the agricultural world, what do you expect? Come on, dear Minister Lamorgese: mobilize those of duty, including the apparently dormant labor inspectors.
Of course if policemen and carabinieri will now have to run after the hundreds of mobsters who have been brought out of prison in the past few weeks for now try to put them back inside, in a ping-pong of contradictory decisions of the Ministry of Justice, there will still be fewer vehicles and men law enforcement officers to control the countryside!
Meanwhile, the landings have increased by 400% compared to last year and in Libya the tam-tam of the "free all" has already started again.