Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Italy to "Fast-Track" Italian Speaking Immigrants

The ANNOTICO Report

Brilliant!!!!

Italy's population is declining, and can benefit from Immigrants, but this method creates a mechinism for almost immediate integration into Italian Society, rather than  like in the US we create a multiplicity of Ethnic enclaves.

Of course, one million legal immigrants every three years might change Italy's Character/Culture.

But then again, as you travel from North to South in Italy  there are distict regional differences anyway, and a lack of homogeniety.

Currently in Italy, there are three million immigrants and eighty per cent of them were illegals at first.

But getting back to having IMMIGRANTS  to Italy speak Italian.

In the US you must be able to speak a passable English to become a Citizen, and only Citizens can vote.

So why do we have to print ballots to vote in so many different languages??  Hmmmm

New immigration law

Fast Track for Italian Speakers. Bossi-Fini law reformed: no more residence contracts.

Immigration flow mechanism will now have three-year time horizon.

ROME The bill for the reform of the Bossi-Fini law on immigration will be on the agenda of the Council of Ministers next week.The eight-page text, drafted by the legal offices of the Interior and Social Solidarity ministries, is finally ready. It will introduce a series of fast tracks for hiring home helps, carers and those with special skills, such as engineers and university staff, but entry will also be open to unskilled foreign workers.And to all those who already speak Italian.

The final stumbling block was CPTs (immigrant reception centres). The Interior and Social Solidarity ministers, Giuliano Amato and Paolo Ferrero, have conflicting visions but managed to reach an agreement.Yet as Communist Refoundations (PRC) Mr Ferrero, acknowledged, the CPT system can be circumvented but not eliminated entirely: otherwise Italy will find itself excluded from the Schengen system.

The solution the two minsters eventually found was procedures that differentiate between illegal immigrants who end up in prison and those who collaborate and identify themselves. Nevertheless, the bill will have to overcome considerable opposition, especially in the Senate, where the House of Freedoms will be doing all it can to block the measure.If the bill should be approved, the government will have twelve months to exercise the delegate powersby issuing a legislative decree to modify the consolidation act on immigration.

Part of what the government wants to do, as Interior Minister Amato said in Florence again yesterday, is to reach the invisible immigrants and combat evasion by employers, who often take advantage of the rigidity of current regulations. It is not acceptable, for instance, that there should be illegal rent contracts for twenty-five square-metre flats with ten immigrants paying three hundred euros each.Mr Amato added on the subject of illegal employment:We are facing a trend that has to be stopped.I know it would also stop a lot of building work but we must do it and we are already doing it.

The immigration flow mechanism will now have a three-year horizon, explains Mr Ferrero in his introduction to the book Viaggio nell'Italia dell'immigrazione (Journey into the Italy of Immigration).If we assume a requirement of 250-300,000 immigrants a year, then a decree for a comparable inflow has to be in place.In other words, about one million workers every three years.Mr Ferrero added that immigration was a structural phenomenon and that immigrants should be directed towards legality using every possible means. I stress this point because there are three million immigrants living in Italy today and eighty per cent of them were illegals at first.

Dino Martirano

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