Cabinet Undersecretary Alfredo
Mantovano on Tuesday said the government is set to change
immigration legislation in order to prevent frauds on migrant
entry flows involving organized crime.
"Over the past decade, many governments have announced changes
to the sole text on immigration without following up on the
intention.
"We will do it in order to change, on an administrative and
juridical level, acts that led to" frauds concerning migrant
arrivals based on flow decrees, involving organized crime, in
order to allow into the country "only those who have the
concrete and certified perspective of working", said Mantovano.
The cabinet undersecretary was addressing the parliamentary
anti-mafia commission after Premier Giorgia Meloni on June 5
delivered a complaint to anti-mafia and anti-terrorism
prosecutor Giovanni Melillo on entry flows into Italy of foreign
workers over the past few years.
The complaint alleged that regular migrant flows for work
reasons are being used as a channel of irregular migration.
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