Italy’s amnesty offering to the country’s estimated 600,000 illegal migrants in order to bolster the agricultural sector has been a major failure, according to data from the Italian Ministry of the Interior.
For days, the public waited for the first official Interior Ministry data to be published. As there was no press conference or a statement, for several hours, the eyes were turned to the website of the Interior Ministry, where the listed numbers showed the first snapshot of the progress made in the regularization of undocumented foreign workers, which started two weeks ago.
Matteo Salvini, the leader of the anti-immigration League party, had earlier opposed the plan that would grant migrants work and residency permits for a minimum of six months with the ability to renew the permits indefinitely.
From June 1 until 1 p.m. on Monday, 32,000 applications for work permits were submitted in total. Out of this number, 23,950 had been already completed and 7,762 were in progress, Il Giornale reported.
However, a closer look at the data reveals that most of the applications do not concern the agricultural sector as the government expected when approving the decree.
“Domestic work and personal assistance represent 91 percent of the applications already completed (21,695), with 76 percent of them in progress (5,906),” states the data of the interior ministry. Furthermore, such numbers are not even coming close to the number expected by the government, as it presumed that about 220,000 migrants would complete applications.
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