Salvini threatens to deport 500,000
“The entertainment is over, now we mean business”, declared Matteo Salvini, leader of the racist National League and Italy’s new Minister of the Interior. He has threatened to deport 500,000 “illegal” migrants and usher in a new regime of repressive” civil protection”. Then news arrived of the coldblooded murder in Calabria of a young activist of the country’s United Base Union, long active among the half million or so migrant workers in the fields of the south picking fruit for 20 Euro a day and forced to live in hovels and shantytowns. Sacco Soumalyla, from Mali and long settled in Italy...