In response to the events of recent days in Lampedusa, Jordan Bardella prefers firmness. While the Italian island has seen more than 8,500 migrants arrive on its soil since the beginning of the week, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the president of the National Rally called on BFMTV on Friday for the adoption of a “policy of immigration that is firm, implacable and, therefore, humane.”
For the MEP, “the migratory wave that affects Europe is just beginning.” “I tell the French that what is happening in Lampedusa will be the future of our country, of our entire continent, if we do not regain control of our immigration policy now,” he said from Beaucaire (Gard), where the National Rally will celebrate its summer college this weekend.
As he did at the beginning of the day when he lamented that “immigration, for Emmanuel Macron, is not a problem, it is a project.”
A warning against any “sign of laxity”
“By accepting a migrant from Italy, who arrived via Lampedusa, we send a signal of dramatic and unprecedented laxity towards the populations that risk their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean,” he estimated.
Sending such “signs of laxity” would be equivalent, according to him, to “giving the signal to a continent that will soon have 2.5 billion inhabitants that it can cross the Mediterranean to reach our society.”
“I think above all about the preservation of my people, about the defense of our identity,” added the leader of the far-right party, who asks to “accompany the boats” of immigrants to “the countries of departure.”
Source: BFM TV
