Italy: “Migrants are a resource and not a problem,” calls for open borders

Leoluca Orlando represents the mindset of those who are bent on ensuring that Europe commit suicide. Rape and other crime rates are skyrocketing, and the Muslim migrants are not working, but placing heavy burdens on Europe’s welfare systems, and he is calling for the inundation of migrants to continue. Luckily, Italy’s new national government is saner than he is. We can only hope that they will prevail.

“Italian Pro-Migrant Mayor: Abolish ‘Death Penalty’ Residency Permits, Open Borders For All,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, June 18, 2018:

Mayor of the Sicilian city of Palermo Leoluca Orlando has declared that Italy should ban residency permits altogether and allow migrants to flood into the country, comparing the permits as morally equivalent to the death penalty.

The 70-year-old mayor, who recently offered to take in the 629 illegals from the Aquarius migrant transport ship after Interior Minister Matteo Salvini banned it from Italian ports, wants to make his city the “capital of tolerance”, French magazine L’Obs reports.

“We are convinced that migrants are a resource and not a problem,” Orlando told the magazine and added: “This situation is an opportunity to defend the rights of all human beings to move and live in the place that suits them.”

Arguing for mass migration, Orlando said he did not see a difference between the migrants and the residents of his city…..