The ITALIAN DISPATCH By Eric J Lyman

The ITALIAN DISPATCH By Eric J Lyman

Italy Has a Migrant Problem, but Not the One You Think

Refugees Dominate Headlines as the Country's Best and Brightest Depart

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Eric J Lyman
Sep 30, 2025
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Refugee arrival numbers in Italy have flattened out, despite waves of crackdowns aimed at stemming the flow of new arrivals landing on the country’s shores.

Italy’s costly, criticized, off-again-on-again migrant processing center in Albania has been blocked by courts and has never gotten off the ground.

But even without it, Giorgia Meloni’s government has…

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