Giorgia Meloni is the leader of the anti-immigration party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) and a member of the Italian parliament. The following video was taken in the Chamber of Deputies during a debate on immigration.
Many thanks to He Ha for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:05 | President, I will speak of, remaining on today’s topic, what the leftist colleague has just said. | |
| 00:10 | Specifically, on two quick points. There’s a limit | |
| 00:13 | to the idiocies one can say in this chamber, pardon me. | |
| 00:16 | You cannot say that legal migration to Italy is being hindered because of the Bossi-Fini law. | |
| 00:22 | Legal migration to Italy has become hardly possible lately, | |
| 00:26 | because the Bossi-Fini quotas have been reduced to zero. | |
| 00:29 | Because all quotas were taken up by those who were smuggled into Italy’s territory. | |
| 00:33 | Because we are the only country that says “You can’t migrate to Italy unless you pay smugglers!” | |
| 00:38 | And that’s exactly what we’ve been protesting about throughout all these years! | |
| 00:42 | So, firstly, let’s try to be serious, please. | |
| 00:46 | Secondly: stop accusing us of institutional racism! | |
| 00:50 | Institutional racism is what the state has been doing: letting Italians die under bridges, | |
| 00:55 | and supporting any foreign migrant on a €37.5 budget! | |
| 01:00 | That’s institutional racism! Institutional racism is giving a social pensioner | |
| 01:03 | €480 a month, where the state spends 1,200 on a single migrant! |
I am sure the same criticism could be made of any other Western European nation. Who was it who said, “I don’t believe in coincidence”?
That’s one impassioned parliamentarian!