Meloni’s crossroads on immigration: follow trucism or scrap it?

The mediocre information delivered yesterday to the Chambers by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi – who in a long and passionate speech in defense of the government’s work he failed to offer a clear answer to the only crucial question on the tragedy of Cutro, i.e. why on that cursed night it was decided to consider the arrival of a boat full of migrants in a sea close to a storm as an event to be treated with the logic of the protection of borders and not with the logic of the protection of human lives – confirms that in front of the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, there is an important crossroads on the issue of managing a word that is complicated to handle for the sovereign culture: immigration. In front of this crossroads, there are two roads.