Lega Nord Warns of Immigration Surge and Cultural Threats in Riva

Nationwide, calculations are made regarding how many thousands of immigrants would be needed to respond to unfilled job offers; in Riva, the Lega Nord takes a contrary stance, raising an alarm over the enormous growth of foreigners in the last ten years. An undeniable reality, as demonstrated by the data reported in the 1999 edition of the Demographic Statistics Yearbook related to 1998, published by the Province. In 1988, foreigners present in our area were 326; in 1998, they were 1,254: a 380% increase. And of course, this only concerns legal residents.

Will we survive as a people into the new millennium? ask the Riva Lega Nord members alarmed in a recent press release. It is well known that they would immediately close the borders because they do not believe that immigration balances the low birth rate nationally, provides workforce for the most humble sectors that Italians disdain, and enriches us culturally.

Position of Lega Nord on Immigration

These reasons that the Lega presents as the motivations of leftist governments are smoke screens. Instead, policies should encourage family growth and births to fill empty cradles and offer our young people more attractive salaries, “rather than catering to certain greedy entrepreneurs who want to import underpaid immigrants.”

“Immigrants,” the League concludes, “are here to root their civilization, not to continue our population, but to replace it.”