Palermo's centre-left mayor,
Leoluca Orlando, on Wednesday suspended Interior Minister Matteo
Salvini's recent security and migrant decree, sparking a row.
Orlando suspended the application of a norm banning officials
from issuing residency permits to migrants who already have a
stay permit.
"With all the problems there are in Palermo, the mayor gets
it into his head to stage civil disobedience on immigrants,"
said Salvini.
Orlando replied: "It's not civil disobedience on our part nor
conscientious objection but the simple application of
Constitutional rights that are guaranteed for all those who live
in our country."
He said the decree was "inhuman" and "turns migrants into
criminals".
Salvini reminded Orlando and other mayors belonging to the
centre-left opposition Democratic Party that the "security
decree, a law od good sense and civilisation, was approved by
the government and parliament, and signed by the president of
the republic."
"First we must think of millions of poor and unemployed
Italians, defending them from the too many crimes committed by
illegal immigrants, and then we will save the rest of the
world".
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