The majority parties are working to stop special protection for asylum seekers, with an amendment to the Cutro decree which will be presented to the Senate.
«The special protection has created overcrowding in courts and police stations and has not produced
integration. We return to the Salvini decrees », sources from the League say.
But the centre-right's plan arouses controversy and concern. "Any new policy in the context of the state of emergency must comply with Italy's obligations in terms of human rights", comments the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, according to whom "the right to life and the prohibition of refoulement cannot be waived, not even in such circumstances".
For this reason, according to the United Nations website, Turk "exhorted the Italian government to abandon the new and severe law adopted at the beginning of the year".
Protests also from the opposition: "This right does not know and cannot solve a structural problem such as immigration and therefore relies on measures of pure propaganda, on the skin of migrants , which will not solve anything but will only expand the borders of the illegality and the underground,” says the president of the Pd senators Francesco Boccia . Adding: "We are faced with choices that have nothing to do with humanity but are the result of a dangerous demagoguery: migrants are not looking for the nearest port for 'special protection' but because they are fleeing war and hunger".
(Unioneonline/lf)
