The following video contains excerpts from a press conference given by Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, in which he talks about the success of his anti-migration policies and related issues.
Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | As of today, he who saw immigration as a feeding trough is on a diet. | |
| 00:05 | And I am convinced that many fake volunteers will no longer participate, | |
| 00:10 | if instead of 35 euros a day in the mega-centers, they take home 19; | |
| 00:16 | you don’t eat anymore. The Mafia doesn’t eat, the Camorra doesn’t eat, the Ndrangheta doesn’t eat. | |
| 00:22 | And therefore the real volunteers will remain, who carry out in the spirit of Christian charity | |
| 00:29 | in solidarity, the job of reception, and I am convinced | |
| 00:33 | that some people in the cooperative will [unintelligible]. | |
| 00:37 | We are not here to make compromises. The decree on security and immigration | |
| 00:41 | will pass the Chamber, as it did the Senate. | |
| 00:44 | And we will give life to an historic judicial reform. | |
| 00:47 | For me the residence permit for humanitarian motives is for those who escape from war, | |
| 00:51 | who escape from torture, who escape from persecution. | |
| 00:55 | This one (me) who has been working like a madman running around half the world | |
| 00:58 | to make repatriation pacts that those before me did not make. | |
| 01:01 | This is a message that in the era of global communication arrives today | |
| 01:05 | in Nigeria, in the Ivory Coast, in Senegal, in Tunisia, in Pakistan, in Bangladesh. | |
| 01:13 | If they understand the music has changed, the traffickers, will change their occupations. | |
| 01:16 | Whoever escapes from war is my brother. | |
| 01:20 | Who comes here to deal drugs or cause problems will go back to his country. | |
| 01:23 | And this will take a little while, but I think the approval of the decree — and this new rule | |
| 01:28 | lets criminals, smugglers and mafiosos know | |
| 01:33 | that in Italy it’s over. And therefore I hope they don’t start from somewhere else. | |
| 01:37 | I have seen the flows… I am not happy, obviously, | |
| 01:41 | if the flow goes to Spain, but each reaps what he sows. | |
| 01:46 | My objective is that these guys don’t leave because they risk death. | |
| 01:50 | I’m only saying that a firm policy reduces the disembarkations. | |
| 01:55 | A weaker policy increases the disembarkations. | |
| 01:59 | But I’m not lecturing the Spanish government, which I still thank today for accepting the Aquarius. |
I love this guy. I just love him. The divide between those who are full of sense and those who are not is a chasm as great as the Grand Canyon.