Italy’s far-right prime minister has said she will not allow the country to become “Europe’s refugee camp”, after thousands of people seeking refuge landed on its shores, prompting France to tighten controls at its border with Italy.
Giorgia Meloni told the UN general assembly in New York that the huge numbers arriving in Lampedusa, a tiny Sicilian island that for years has been the first port of call for people crossing a perilous stretch of the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa, had placed Italy “under incredible pressure”.
So many refugees come from countries where their farms have failed because of climate change or not having the capital to industrialize and compete with imported crops. Or they work in factories owned by Western Nations for corporations that import the profit to the west and pay piss poor wages and leave behind massive pollution. Or are fleeing wars fought with Western weapons brought in at massive quantities from Western Countries by Western smuggler and intelligence agencies. Or they live in a country with borders drawn by foreign groups which already depleted the profitable natural resources a century ago leaving a nation with no infrastructure, no natural resources, no service economy or the money to industrialize.