Italy’s far-right prime minister has said she will not allow the country to become “Europe’s refugee camp”, after thousands of people seeking refuge landed on its shores, prompting France to tighten controls at its border with Italy.

Giorgia Meloni told the UN general assembly in New York that the huge numbers arriving in Lampedusa, a tiny Sicilian island that for years has been the first port of call for people crossing a perilous stretch of the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa, had placed Italy “under incredible pressure”.

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    1 year ago

    NIMBY at its finest. I’m not saying to take everyone no matter what, but helping eachothers is how we thrive as a species. We’re better than this.

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      We’re trying to help a tiny group of oligarchs, not each other. “We” are not better than this, socialist states are.

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      We are the dominant species on earth. Why do you think we would have problems thriving? Every country has a right to defend it’s borders from anyone.

      Allowing undocumented refugees has nothing to do with thriving or surviving by any means.

      I agree it’s nimbyism but it’s more nuanced than you posit here.