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Defined “uncomfortable“His chair, spoke of” hot autumn “about us but, at the same time, it was argued that in theimmigration there is no ongoing emergency. The reference is to the interview published on Republic by the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese. The latter seems to want to minimize precisely the discourse that most headaches to the government in this summer of 2020, namely, precisely the one related to migrants.
According to the owner of the Ministry of the Interior, a real emergency there is no: “I would like to clarify – said Lamorgese – that, although there is a growing trend in autonomous landings compared to 2019, the current figures do not represent an emergency: just make a comparison with 2011, the year of the Arab springs, in which some 30,000 Tunisians arrived in Italy and now 8,000 have arrived since the beginning of the year ”.
It is convenient to make a comparison with nine years ago, when the internal and international contexts were very different. In that 2011, the Arab springs remembered by Lamorgese literally brought down two states in front of our country, that is to say Tunisia me Libya, creating an unprecedented emergency. Therefore, it is clear that, when linking the current year with that of the North African revolts, the comparison cannot but seem in favor of the current government. But the real stick is twelve months ago: from January 1 to today, a total of 17,985 migrants have landed in Italy, data in hand, while, in the same period of 2019, 4,878 people have disembarked.
Therefore, it is not a simple “upward trend”, as declared by the minister, but rather a rebound that runs the risk of having a structural impact on the migration phenomenon and the stability of the economy. hospitality in Italy. There is nothing ordinary about an increase of almost 14,000 in the number of people disembarked. On the contrary, such a situation implies an extraordinary, emergency management: it is necessary to find new structures, since many had been closed due to the decrease in landings in previous years, it is necessary to deploy new security personnel and, above all, greater allocations of funds to avoid the collapse of the reception.
To all this we must add the superposition of another emergency, which is health. Even if, as Lamorgese told Repubblica, most of the Sicilian hot spots are used for less than capacity, the concerns are bound to persist. At a time when the population is coming off a prolonged shutdown by Covid and where the fear of new infections is maximum, having reception centers even with some groups of migrants in the area has already helped to increase the voltage. In Sicily, this situation has already been evident since April: in several countries centers for migrants have been reopened, in many of these structures there have been leaks and episodes that have put the population on alert. From Siculiana to Pozzallo, from Porto Empedocle to Messina, what happened in recent months on the island has shown the vulnerability reception in full emergency due to coronavirus, with all the various difficulties in managing the phenomenon.
All net of what is happening in Lampedusa, where the situation runs the risk of becoming more explosive every day. But even in this case, the minister downplayed: “In Lampedusa all migrants are subject to swabs: we have done more than 6,500 throughout Sicily – read the interview with Repubblica – To relieve pressure on the hotspot for weeks there have been two ferries used for the quarantine of migrants who, with the end of the previous isolation period, were able to embark about 850 people. ”Everything is regular and therefore an emergency that, according to the minister, is only a mere fantasy and nothing more.
In reality, the situation regarding the health risk associated with migrants is far from calm. Alberto Giorgi on IlGiornale.it explained all the unknowns in this regard: from immigrants who escape from the centers evading tampons, to those who arrive with ghost landings without doing controls, the positive people not tracked by Italy could be many. Even in the figures of the Ministry of the Interior regarding the positives already discovered among migrants, the data did not seem very clear, since those who were infected once they disembarked are included in the list reserved for residents or recently arrived foreigners.
