Meloni Pays Immigration Lawyers £500 Bonus to Send Clients Back Home
Italian immigration lawyers would be paid £500 for convincing their clients to return home under a Meloni Government proposal to boost repatriations. The Telegraph has the story.
Worth reading in full.BY WILL JONESThe repatriation scheme is contained in a Government-backed security bill, which has already been approved by the Senate and is due to be debated in the lower house of Parliament this week.
The controversial proposal has provoked a furious response from lawyers, judges and the Government’s political opponents, a month after Giorgia Meloni, the Italian Prime Minister, suffered a devastating defeat in a national referendum on judicial reform. …
Meloni has pledged to tackle illegal immigration and has lobbied European neighbours to follow her hardline policies.
According to Italian media reports, lawyers would be entitled to a bonus of around €615 (£535) for every migrant who agreed to accept “voluntary repatriation” under the draft law.
Meloni’s ruling coalition is understood to have allocated €246,000 (£213,000) for the scheme this year, with funding expected to double in 2027 and 2028. …
Lawyers who assist their foreign clients in accepting voluntary repatriation would be eligible for the bonus only once an individual had returned to their country of origin.
The Consiglio Nazionale Forense (CNF), Italy’s national bar council, said it was not informed of the plan and urged the Parliament to remove it from any kind of collaboration. Francesco Greco, the CNF president, said in a statement: “We knew nothing about it, neither before, during or after.”
The Associazione Nazionale Magistrati, which represents judges and magistrates, also expressed its opposition to the plan and its effect on migrants’ rights.
While Meloni can claim success in slowing migrant arrivals since her election in 2022, her scheme to process migrants at two centres in Albania has been consistently stymied in the courts and migrant repatriations have been slow compared to other countries.
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