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11/30/2008: "Italian town offers 2,000 euros to immigrants who will leave"
The town council is controlled by the xenophobic Northern League, which has previously called on the Italian navy to sink boats trying to smuggle in illegal immigrants from North Africa.
"We're ready to give 2,000 euros to each family as long they go and live elsewhere," said Manola Spolverato, 39, a councillor in the town of Spresiano, north of Venice in the north-east Veneto region.
"It would cost less than supporting families who are in difficulty. It's not right that the council should be compelled to support, at its own expense, immigrants who have lost their jobs." As the financial crisis deepens and Italy slides into recession, welfare groups and the left-wing opposition say immigrants are in danger of being used as scapegoats for the country's economic ills.
[ Brilliant idea to point out, as they do in a campaign poster depicting a Native American ""They were subjected to immigration and now they live on reserves!" But somehow I don't think native Italians can expect even as much mercy to be given reserves to live on when they become an oppressed minority. ]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/3535170/Italian-town-offers-2000-euros-to-immigrants-who-will-leave.html