ROME - It is the spring of 2009. Then as now the Sicily Channel is in full alarm immigrants. Sink the barges, Lampedusa is collapsing and the international community is concerned about Italy's Berlusconi and Bossi, the hard-line against illegal immigrants. That inability to manage the crisis stages the big bluff.
On the one hand, the Knight and the Northern League allies mounted a media campaign against immigrants, accused of endangering national security. On the other point the finger against the migrants arriving by sea on the coasts of southern Italy. But it's all a sham - they write the U.S.
Embassy in Rome at the State Department in Washington - because the boat people are a tiny proportion of irregular migrants arriving in Italy, because crime rates are falling and because the vaunted line Berlusconi's government takes in water on all sides. So staged to hide a weakness of the system in the coming days - if immigration were to materialize the expected alarm - could dramatically come to the surface.
And to justify that the treaty of friendship with Libya's Gaddafi much criticized for the lack of human rights safeguards in the chapter-immigration rejections. Two years ago, while Italy live another alarm immigrants, the embassy on Via Veneto is mobilized. Contact dozens of officials and experts, flies the Peninsula to get an idea of the situation.
Then compile a dossier of 30 pages divided into three chapters that goes beyond the slogan of the Berlusconi government. Is classified and sent to Washington with a cable and then from WikiLeaks L'Espresso public exclusively Italian, with the anticipation of the Republic. The author of the secret file is the number two U.S.
embassy Elizabeth L. Dibble, the diplomatic Berlusconi after the first revelations of WikiLeaks has called "an official of the third degree," but in fact today is driving the European and Eurasian Affairs Section of the Department of State. The key passage of its cable is clear: "Although officials from the Interior Ministry said the embassy had to believe that there is a low threat of terrorism tied to illegal immigration and even though government statistics show a drop in overall crime in all the main Italian cities, Prime Minister Berlusconi, the Interior Minister Maroni, senior officials and the Italian press (most of which is subject to the control of Berlusconi) continuously advertise in an exaggerated and misleading the relationship between crime, terrorism and illegal immigration.
" An attitude that drives U.S. diplomacy to speak of "a sense of danger" instilled in the public opinion that creates an alarm "xenophobia" among the population and that the measures inspired by the League, as the census of Roma and other standards anti-immigrant written by the center-right government.
A campaign to condemn the U.S.. The data obtained from the relevant ministries Dibble show that "the tragic plight of boat people hide the fact that they constitute less than 15% of total arrivals of irregular migrants." In short, a substantial number but not able to justify warning the government, apparently concerned to hide another.
Or that the Dibble writes, "most of the undocumented in Italy arrives by land, air or sea." But in the ship, not on the boats of the desperate. The head of the Border Police told the diplomats that the Stars and Stripes "57% of immigrants entering Italy with a visa will retains more than its due date.
Most arrive by land from the boundaries of the Northeast, but also by sea ports. Another senior police official said "that the border police leads only sporadic and random checks on those who do not come from the EU." They come from Morocco, Albania, China, Ukraine and the Philippines. Enter in Italy "with tourist visas," and then "hold to maturity as well as encouraged by the Italian porous borders and the procedures for regularization of illegal immigration often implemented." In short, is the system that should be rectified, but it would take a policy on three hundred and sixty degrees.
And it would take even money and adequate facilities. Although it has launched a massive campaign of expulsion, testifies to the U.S. diplomacy, "most of the action is not performed because of lack of resources: Italy has less than three thousand beds available for their detention" and therefore illegal can not be controlled: "At 70,645 illegal immigrants traced, only 24,234 were actually returned," notes the American diplomatic.
Then there is the problem of immigrants coming from EU countries in Eastern Europe, who are able to move freely within the Union. In short, sums up the Dibble with an opinion that leaves no doubt, "a vigorous diplomatic activity, new and more restrictive bilateral agreements with countries to return home over an extended period of detention of illegal immigrants and a strict security law have failed and have failed to stop the flow of illegal immigration.
" Then as now, one of the scapegoats identified by the government in front of your bankruptcy becomes the European Union. "Frustrated by the incessant flow of migrants to Italy and through it, the government authorities have complained in confidence of the Libyan complicity in the trafficking of refugees and the failure to help the EU to do more in 'help the countries of South Asia.
They therefore organized an aggressive diplomatic campaign with the others involved to obtain the necessary cooperation. " But Berlusconi's government clearly did not have the weight necessary to accept the other Heads of State and Government of the burden-sharing and cost on migration flows. 
On the one hand, the Knight and the Northern League allies mounted a media campaign against immigrants, accused of endangering national security. On the other point the finger against the migrants arriving by sea on the coasts of southern Italy. But it's all a sham - they write the U.S.
Embassy in Rome at the State Department in Washington - because the boat people are a tiny proportion of irregular migrants arriving in Italy, because crime rates are falling and because the vaunted line Berlusconi's government takes in water on all sides. So staged to hide a weakness of the system in the coming days - if immigration were to materialize the expected alarm - could dramatically come to the surface.
And to justify that the treaty of friendship with Libya's Gaddafi much criticized for the lack of human rights safeguards in the chapter-immigration rejections. Two years ago, while Italy live another alarm immigrants, the embassy on Via Veneto is mobilized. Contact dozens of officials and experts, flies the Peninsula to get an idea of the situation.
Then compile a dossier of 30 pages divided into three chapters that goes beyond the slogan of the Berlusconi government. Is classified and sent to Washington with a cable and then from WikiLeaks L'Espresso public exclusively Italian, with the anticipation of the Republic. The author of the secret file is the number two U.S.
embassy Elizabeth L. Dibble, the diplomatic Berlusconi after the first revelations of WikiLeaks has called "an official of the third degree," but in fact today is driving the European and Eurasian Affairs Section of the Department of State. The key passage of its cable is clear: "Although officials from the Interior Ministry said the embassy had to believe that there is a low threat of terrorism tied to illegal immigration and even though government statistics show a drop in overall crime in all the main Italian cities, Prime Minister Berlusconi, the Interior Minister Maroni, senior officials and the Italian press (most of which is subject to the control of Berlusconi) continuously advertise in an exaggerated and misleading the relationship between crime, terrorism and illegal immigration.
" An attitude that drives U.S. diplomacy to speak of "a sense of danger" instilled in the public opinion that creates an alarm "xenophobia" among the population and that the measures inspired by the League, as the census of Roma and other standards anti-immigrant written by the center-right government.
A campaign to condemn the U.S.. The data obtained from the relevant ministries Dibble show that "the tragic plight of boat people hide the fact that they constitute less than 15% of total arrivals of irregular migrants." In short, a substantial number but not able to justify warning the government, apparently concerned to hide another.
Or that the Dibble writes, "most of the undocumented in Italy arrives by land, air or sea." But in the ship, not on the boats of the desperate. The head of the Border Police told the diplomats that the Stars and Stripes "57% of immigrants entering Italy with a visa will retains more than its due date.
Most arrive by land from the boundaries of the Northeast, but also by sea ports. Another senior police official said "that the border police leads only sporadic and random checks on those who do not come from the EU." They come from Morocco, Albania, China, Ukraine and the Philippines. Enter in Italy "with tourist visas," and then "hold to maturity as well as encouraged by the Italian porous borders and the procedures for regularization of illegal immigration often implemented." In short, is the system that should be rectified, but it would take a policy on three hundred and sixty degrees.
And it would take even money and adequate facilities. Although it has launched a massive campaign of expulsion, testifies to the U.S. diplomacy, "most of the action is not performed because of lack of resources: Italy has less than three thousand beds available for their detention" and therefore illegal can not be controlled: "At 70,645 illegal immigrants traced, only 24,234 were actually returned," notes the American diplomatic.
Then there is the problem of immigrants coming from EU countries in Eastern Europe, who are able to move freely within the Union. In short, sums up the Dibble with an opinion that leaves no doubt, "a vigorous diplomatic activity, new and more restrictive bilateral agreements with countries to return home over an extended period of detention of illegal immigrants and a strict security law have failed and have failed to stop the flow of illegal immigration.
" Then as now, one of the scapegoats identified by the government in front of your bankruptcy becomes the European Union. "Frustrated by the incessant flow of migrants to Italy and through it, the government authorities have complained in confidence of the Libyan complicity in the trafficking of refugees and the failure to help the EU to do more in 'help the countries of South Asia.
They therefore organized an aggressive diplomatic campaign with the others involved to obtain the necessary cooperation. " But Berlusconi's government clearly did not have the weight necessary to accept the other Heads of State and Government of the burden-sharing and cost on migration flows.
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