Orlando clashes with Salvini over security decree

(ANSA) - Rome, January 2 - 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".