A network of migration lawyers in Italy is allegedly gaming asylum laws by presenting migrants as gay or at risk of family persecution to halt deportations, an investigation by Il Giornale claims.
The paper also alleges that the lawyers tell migrants to say they would face persecution from their families if they returned home.
If a migrant is Nigerian, everything is focused on homosexuality. It’s claimed that their client is gay and that if repatriated, he or she will face persecution. If, however, the detainee is of another nationality, the focus is on the family harassment he or she would face if returned to his or her homeland. It’s a fixed pattern.
Journalist Matt Carus described this as proof that “we’re beyond human rights, we’re at organised fraud,” and said the state—and, indeed, the Italian taxpayer—was being “taken for a ride.”
La verità non paga, la finzione sì. Un'inchiesta ha svelato il "pacchetto asilo": migranti che pagano migliaia di euro per imparare a fingersi gay. Un business dove avvocati e consulenti vendono copioni su come vestirsi e cosa dire per ingannare le commissioni.
Lega MEP Silvia Sardone, who says the Left “want[s] our country invaded by illegal immigrants,” noted that this practice is “widespread across Europe to obtain asylum.”
Indeed, reports just last week—including by the establishment BBC—revealed that a “shadow industry of law firms and advisers” is helping migrants stay in the UK by pretending to be gay. Others are falsely claiming to be victims of domestic abuse.
Anna Maria Cisint, who also represents Lega in the European Parliament, said this legal practice was an example of the “Left, once again … showing its true colors: that of open doors at all costs.”
Members of the governing Brothers of Italy party have called for an investigation into the allegations.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
