Der Brief ist schon von Ende September aber durchaus noch aktuell:
In an open letter to leading daily La Repubblica on 19 September Sala said how a ceaseless flow of Africans, Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis – as many as 500 or 600 per day, one third of them minors – is bringing Milan’s resources for housing them to its knees. Flowing northwards towards the “promised lands” of Germany, Scandinavia or Britain, the flood is dammed in northern Italy as the Swiss, French and Austrian borders are closed.
The situation is spawning organised criminal gangs extorting the migrants’ meagre remaining funds to smuggle them across the northern border.
Refugees from the war-torn Middle East and desperately poor sub-Saharan Africa are being housed in schools, gymnasiums, freight yards and oratories. Soon the indoor sport arena PalaSharp and a former military barracks will be taken over by humanitarian associations helping the migrants. The base camp for workers at last year’s Expo Milano 2015 was to be used, but the Lombardy regional government offered the prefab housing instead to victims of last month’s earthquake in central Italy.
Now the responsibility can no longer fall on the shoulders of “the few municipalities dealing with it at the limit of their capabilities,” wrote Sala. “The government … should launch a new and workable integration policy, planned and adequately financed to help the thousands of refugees blocked in our city, and in other parts of the country, to find a way out of their provisional status.”
Immigration is not a “burning match to be passed from hand to hand,” wrote Sala. “It’s a gigantic question needing a radical gear-change at the national level … because otherwise egoism and fear will take over, providing millions more votes to all kinds of populists.”
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