Italy’s interior minister Matteo Salvini has declared one of the new government’s top priorities will be to “send them home”, in a move that signals he will keep a campaign pledge which could result in hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants leaving Italy.
Mr Salvini, leader of Lega, campaigned during the Italian national election on a pledge of deporting 500,000 migrants within five years if his party wins the election – including 100,000 in the first year.
The new government, a populist coalition between Lega and the Five Star Movement was sworn in today in Rome.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, a 53-year-old law professor, will lead a government that aims to cut taxes and boost welfare spending, while also wanting to overhaul EU rules on immigration and budgets.
Hours after the government was approved Mr Salvini said Italy would now take a tougher approach.
“Open doors in Italy for good people and a one-way ticket for those who come to Italy to create commotion and think they will be taken care of. ‘Send them home’ will be one of our top priorities,” he said.
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