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More than 1,500 people are being ousted from the refugee camp at San Ferdinando, in southern Italy, in the largest eviction since Italy’s rightwing populist government’s immigration measures kicked in.
On Wednesday morning, almost 1,000 paramilitary police officers surrounded the 400 shacks where the migrants have lived since the camp was established in 2010, near Gioia Tauro, in Calabria. As people were ushered out clutching their few possessions, bulldozers demolished the shanty town of cardboard and wood huts in a matter of hours.
Celeste Logiacco, union leader for Flai-CGIL, told the Guardian that the camp was home to at least 200 women, many of them victims of sex trafficking. “I just hope they will find a safe place for them,” she said. “They are vulnerable women who need help and support.’’
Two months later another informal shantytown, Borreano, in Basilicata, which also housed hundreds of African workers, was demolished. Last May the informal camp in Campobello di Mazara in Sicily was demolished by the local authorities, who deemed it too dangerous for people to live there because of the human waste scattered around an area that had no electricity, toilets or showers.
Migrant labour is a booming business in Sicily, not only for farmers but also for the contractors who recruit men and women to work illegally in the fields.
Some Africans who have seen their camps destroyed say they are being paid €2 (£1.71) an hour, €7.50 below the legal minimum wage.
Laws passed in 2017 promised eight-year prison sentences for those recruiting and exploiting migrant workers. But Italian labour unions say up to 300,000 illegal workers continue to generate billions of euros a year in profit for Italy’s agricultural sector.
originally posted by: ClovenSky
Yep, corporate slavery in addition to the social upheaval these non assimilating people bring about. Similar to our H1B visa program to bring people in at slave wages. No wage bargaining power period. They are good tools to keep technology wages down across the board. If these visa holders complain, well then you are fired and back to your home country you go.
'We just can't find skilled workers' ... bs!!! ... They just don't want to pay the wages needed or 'gasp' offer training themselves.
originally posted by: AtlasHawk
A bit of a reasonable article from the the guardian for once.
Its not a surprise that the Aid and NGO groups are condemning the gov and its action.
Seeing these are the same aid groups that have so far have failed to do anything positive to those illegally African Migrants which their human traffickers had brought them to Italy.
Laws passed in 2017 promised eight-year prison sentences for those recruiting and exploiting migrant workers. But Italian labour unions say up to 300,000 illegal workers continue to generate billions of euros a year in profit for Italy’s agricultural sector.
There is another reason why Italian and European Leftists want more African migrants and that's cheap labour. Modern day slavery.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
a reply to: dfnj2015
Maybe if they got off our damn oil we wouldn't have to bomb them.