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| Italian Populist Leader Promises To Deport 500,000 Migrants |
| 2018-01-29 |
| [Breitbart] Matteo Salvini, leader of the Lega Nord, has promised he will deport half a million migrants if he becomes Prime Minister of ITaly. The Italian populist promised that if he is elected Prime Minister in the national election in March 2018 he will deport 100,000 migrants within his first year and half a million over the course of his five-year term, the Telegraph reports. "There are half a million irregular migrants in Italy. All of them need to be sent home," Salvini said earlier this week. Salvini has been accused by many in the mainstream media of being xenophobic or even racist for his anti-mass migration stance. He addressed these detractors, saying: "The only antidote to racism is to control, regulate and limit immigration. There are millions of Italians in economic difficulty. Italians are not racist, but out-of-control immigration brings with it far from positive reactions. We want to prevent that." Salvini and the Lega Nord have formed an electoral alliance with billionaire former four-time Prime Minister and leader of Forza Italia Silvio Berlusconi, and the conservative-nationalist Brothers of Italy party led by Giorgia Meloni. |
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