Under Successful Conservative PM Meloni, Italy Cracks Down on Human Smugglers, Makes Deals With Neighboring Countries, and Cuts Illegal Immigration by 64%

2024 will be remembered as the year that Europe turned right – and it was not for nothing.

Besides the sheer failure of liberal politicians and their crippling policies, there are also examples of how conservative leaders are faring much better and getting much more public recognition.

One such example is Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Meloni is one of the most popular leaders in Europe, and to achieve good results, she has sometimes had to clash with some of her more liberal counterparts.

It arises now that under Meloni, Italy’s level of illegal immigration has plunged an astonishing 64%.

Her government has cracked down hard on smugglers and worked with Italy’s neighboring countries to diminish the flow.

That was what the country’s Foreign Minister was able to boast today.

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Sunday that their success shows once and for all that enforcing tough border policies is possible — it just takes hard work.

The New York Post reported:

“‘It’s not easy. We’ve worked hard to achieve this goal’, Tajani told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ ’Sunday Morning Futures’. ‘We are very happy for this. We are not against legal immigration, rather against illegal immigration’.

‘We are working with an agreement with Tunisia, with Egypt, with Libya. We are working with the North African countries for reducing the boats coming [and] fighting against the crime’.”

Needless to say, Meloni’s common sense policies have drawn mixed reactions in liberal Europe.

It is true, though, that new UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer, a member of the left-leaning Labor Party, has praised Italy’s policies on that front.

Minister Tajani told Fox News how Italy is vigorously tackling human trafficking as smugglers get paid to move desperate migrants across borders.

“’Human traffickers are the most important part of crime. They are human traffickers, weapon traffickers, drug traffickers. They [belong to] the same organization, but we need to be very strong and to fight against these organizations, and we are doing it’, Takani said.”

Meloni had previously shared with Bartiromo her thoughts on the human trafficking crisis.

“’We have to fight the traffickers’, Meloni emphasized in that interview. ‘What the traffickers are doing is incredible. These organizations are always becoming more powerful, and they use their power and the money they [have] against the state’.”

Tajani is in the US for the United Nations General Assembly. He said that that conservatives are on the rise in Europe.

“’There is a majority center-right in Europe, also inside the new European Commission’, he said, referring to recent elections. ‘We are working hard for growth’.”

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