From the article:
Italian authorities are to carry out a census of Roma people with a view to deporting those without papers, according to new Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
Salvini, head of the anti-immigration League party that is the junior party in Italy’s governing coalition, plans to order “a survey of Roma in Italy to find out who, how, how many”, he told a northern Italian TV station on Monday, saying the information would be collected in a “register”.“Irregular [undocumented] foreigners will be deported via agreements with other countries, but Italian Roma unfortunately you have to keep at home,” he was quoted as saying.
Salvini has a long history of targeting Italy’s Roma and Sinti population, which numbers an estimated 130,000-170,000, around half of whom are believed to be Italian citizens.
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Yet another event in a long line of anti Romani racism in Europe that has never gone away.
To quote a friend, “White Americans are freaking out over the return of Nazism; meanwhile, that sh*t never ended for us.” I know there’s so much going on in the States right now, and we should certainly bring awareness to that, but I hope we can also bring awareness to the escalating, continuing anti-Romani violence in Europe that NEVER went away. This is what real “Gypsy life” is. They are trying to commit genocide against us and have been since we left India.
Italy to compile ‘register’ of Roma people: Matteo Salvini – The Local
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