Failure of right-wing immigration policy in Italy

The murder of a young Egyptian led to heavy rioting in an immigrant district in Milan on Saturday night. North Africans and Latin Americans fought bloody battles with each other in the "no-man's-land of the immigrants", writes Gad Lerner in his blog: "Legal and illegal situations have become so dangerously entangled that no amount of police operations can detangle them. To blame are those who forced the migrants to become concentrated [in certain areas], which on the one hand hinders the process of legalisation and regulation and on the other incites the anger of neighbours, thus preventing social contact. ... Based on an ideological hostility towards foreigners, the Right's security policy ... disappoints the citizens' expectations, pitches them against each other and gives young, second-generation immigrants the feeling that the custodians of the law, if not all Italians, are their enemies."

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