Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s June 5 visit to Albania’s Shëngjin port underscores the folly of Italy’s scheme to send migrants and asylum seekers, intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea, to Albania. Amid spiraling costs, delays, and serious concerns about people’s rights, the plan is revealing itself to be an example of how not to manage migration.
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What they don’t say is how much it would cost to provide these services locally. The U.K. wants to send their immigrants to Rwanda. Integrating people into local culture is a net benefit, and generally less expensive, for those whose primary concern is cost, not human lives. Ostracizing them and separating the from their families is what does harm.
This is just more off shoring racism.
The problem is complex, efforts like this do not make things better.