It looks like the new government's anti-immigration stance is more than just words and campaign promises. It would have been better had their stance just been rhetorical. Certainly better for prospective immigrants.
Italy Closes Its Borders to Refugees, Turns Away 629 on Ship
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CASTELBUONO, Sicily (Courthouse News) — Italy’s new right-wing interior minister Matteo Salvini is keeping to his hard-line campaign promises and has begun to close his country’s borders to refugees and immigrants from war-torn and impoverished African and Middle Eastern nations.
Salvini announced on Sunday that Italy would not allow the humanitarian ship Aquarius, with 629 immigrants and refugees aboard, to dock at an Italian port.
On Monday, the interior minister vowed to stop a humanitarian group called Sea-Watch from bringing people it was picking up off the Libyan coast to Italy.
This hard-line approach was backed up by his governing counterpart, Luigi Di Maio, the leader of the 5-Star Movement, and Italy’s new premier, Giuseppe Conte.
Salvini tweeted on Sunday afternoon: “Everyone in Europe does their own thing, now Italy is raising its head up. STOP to the ugly business of clandestine immigration.”

Undated photo released by French NGO SOS Mediterranee on Monday shows migrants about to board the SOS Mediterranee’s Aquarius ship and Doctors Without Borders NGOs, in the Mediterranean Sea.
(Kenny Karpov/SOS Mediterranee via AP)