European Nation’s Pivot Toward Conservatism Brings Staggering Drop in Illegal Immigration; Italy’s Conservative Leader Giorgia Meloni Has Overseen 64% Plunge in Illegal Immigration, Foreign Minister Boasts

European nation’s pivot toward conservatism brings staggering drop in illegal immigration

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Italy has ‘worked very hard to achieve this goal’

Italy’s conservative-led government has been hard at work to bring down illegal immigration over the past year, and they have a 64% drop in numbers to show for it.

“It’s not easy. We’ve worked hard to achieve this goal,” Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo.

“We are very happy for this. We are not against legal immigration, rather against illegal immigration,” he clarified.

“Human traffickers are the most important part of crime. They are human traffickers, weapon traffickers, drug traffickers. They [belong to] the same organization, but we need to be very strong and to fight against these organizations, and we are doing it.”

Tajani said the drop followed financial deals struck with Tunisia, Libya and other North African countries, a measure criticized by some and commended by others, including a member of the opposite side of the aisle, U.K. Prime Minister Kier Starmer.

Last year, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sat down with Bartiromo for a talk about the political climate in Europe, including the conservative movement’s apparent growing influence that remains a part of political discourse. —>READ MORE HERE

Italy’s conservative leader Giorgia Meloni has overseen 64% plunge in illegal immigration, foreign minister boasts:

Under Italy’s conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the nation’s level of illegal immigration has plunged 64% after she cracked down hard on smugglers and worked with Italy’s neighbors to stop the flow, the country’s foreign minister boasted.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Sunday that her success shows that enforcing tough border policies is possible — it just takes hard work.

“It’s not easy. We’ve worked hard to achieve this goal,” Tajani told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “We are very happy for this. We are not against legal immigration, rather against illegal immigration.”

“We are working with an agreement with Tunisia, with Egypt, with Libya. We are working with the North African countries for reducing the boats coming …[and] fighting against the crime.”

Meloni’s policies had drawn mixed reactions in Europe, though newly minted UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer, a member of the left-leaning Labor Party, praised Italy’s policies on that front.

Tajani stressed that Italy is aggressively working to clamp down on human trafficking as smugglers get paid to move desperate migrants across borders.

“Human traffickers are the most important part of crime. They are human traffickers, weapon traffickers, drug traffickers. They [belong to] the same organization, but we need to be very strong and to fight against these organizations, and we are doing it,” Takani said.

Meloni had reflected on the human trafficking crisis during an interview with Bartiromo last year. —>READ MORE HERE

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