September 16, 2023

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It’s astonishing how similar Italy and its problem with illegal migrants rolling in from its south is to Texas with all its problems with incoming illegals. Douglas Murray at the New York Post, wrote a fine piece yesterday about how it looks from the ground there.

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Now, Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is looking to take some Gov. Greg Abbott-type action.

Yesterday she issued a vow to the European Union to take “extraordinary measures” if the EU doesn’t blockade the migrant boats which are currently flooding the Italian island of Lampedusa, situated halfway between Sicily and the Tunisian coast in the Mediterranean. Some 7,000 illegal migrants have rolled in, which is more than the permanent population of Lampedusa itself. She’s furious, and suggested that if the European Union doesn’t bother to enforce immigration law with a joint naval blockade of its own, then she’s sending in the Italian navy to take care of the matter.

Here’s her address which (unfortunately for us), is only in Italian: