Italian priests forced to become judicial officers to show illegals the door

In particular, it will be for those responsible for reception centers to tell the hosted refugees whether their application has been accepted or not. Nationals from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Guinea accounted for the largest number of migrants, despite there being no conflict in their countries.

New asylum application procedure stipulated in the Minniti Decree, include to notify the applicants of the outcome of their asylum applications. The decree will also abolish secondary appeals on asylum rulings.

The legislation features the creation of new reception centres for repatriation, cuts in the time asylum requests are examined, the elimination of a layer of justice for appeals, the option for asylum-seekers to do socially useful work and an allocation of 19 million euros for the execution of expulsions, ANSA reported.

The package has been criticised by pro-migration NGO’s for allegedly watering down asylum seekers’ rights, because it leaves migrants with no access to state healthcare.

From 12 August, it will be up to the heads of reception centers to tell the hosted refugees whether their application has been accepted or not. They are then expected to tell the migrants to go home, assuming a role as public officials.

But Caritas is complaining that it is an “improper” role. The Catholic mission have also expressed strong concern at the consequences of applying Minniti decree. Director of Caritas Ambrosiana, Luciano Gualzetti says “The decree actually transforms the heads of the reception centers, and indirectly the parish priests in the case of parish reception, in judicial offices, with criminal and civil liability”.

Meanwhile Italy’s largest centre, Cara di Mineo, which houses more than 3 000 migrants, often makes local headlines as a hive of criminal activity.

In the summer of 2015, the Diocese of Milan, like other Italian dioceses, chose to promote widespread hospitality.

Caritas is busy building a network of housing that would ensure a “dignified reception” of migrants. If they have to show migrants the door says Caritas, “we would be forced to reformulate our widespread hospitality plan as it was conceived”.

EU border agency Frontex has noted it was a “a paradox” that more than a third of migrant rescues in the Mediterranean were made by NGOs. Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri said this was “quite strange” when “there have never been so many public vessels deployed in the sea by the EU and Italy”.

The quota picked up by Frontex is only 12 percent and that of Eunavfor Med only around 10 percent, he said.

Italy’s ability to cope with the influx of asylum seekers is under strain following a 30 percent increase in the number of arrivals so far this year, according to Frontex.

Pope Francis, an open-border enthusiast, earlier told the G20 gathering in Hamburg to counter the “very dangerous” alliance between the US and Russia, saying its leaders are among those that have a “distorted vision of the world” when it comes to immigration, the Italian daily la Repubblica reported.

“I worry about very dangerous alliances between powers which have a distorted vision of the world: America and Russia, China and North Korea, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and [Syria’s Bashar al-] Assad over the war in Syria,” the pope told La Repubblica newspaper.

But it is an understatement to say how much ordinary Italians loathe pro-immigration open-border, do-gooders such as Giusi Nicolini, the former mayor of Lampedusa, the “migrant haven”. Ordinary voters were faced with the real-world consequences of Nicolini’s decisions.

Despite globalists showering Nicolini with accolades, like Unesco’s Félix Houphouët-Boigny peace prize for the “great humanity and constant commitment” as well as the Olof Palme prize in 2016, and being invited to dinner with former US president Barack Obama at the White House, it has not helped her popularity.

During Nicolini’s time as mayor, she even received solidarity visits by the actress Angelina Jolie in 2011, and by Pope Francis a few months after he became pontiff in 2013.

In June, Nicolini, a politician from the centre-left Democratic party, was nevertheless resoundingly ousted from her post, coming third in municipal elections with a miserable 908 votes, the Observer reported.