Carlino (IDV), "Extension of residence permits to those who lose work through no fault"

Italy of Values amendment to change the law on the crime of illegal immigration

Rome - November 18, 2010 - "The current legislation on the crime of illegal immigration is absurd and must be changed: for the immigrants who remain without employment for reasons beyond their responsibility, IdV requesting the extension of a residence permit for another 12 months ".

The proposal was presented yesterday by Senator Julie Carlino, leader of Italy of Values in Work Commission, who announced the amendment to change the text only currently governing immigration.

"We believe that this amendment could be decisive, by law, the situation that has unfortunately been created and which threatens to escalate and explode all over Italy, as was the case in Brescia and Milan" in the senator concluded.

Bill in the House. Turkish: "The exasperation of immigrants do not end up on the crane"

Rome - November 6, 2010 - We extend the adjustment in the economic sectors where the stronger is the presence of foreign workers, to give "to Italian citizens and immigrants who live and work in our country the tools to do so regularly."

It is believed Livia Turkish, responsible immigration and social policies of the Democratic Party, which has just filed a bill in the House for a new regularization. A text which "wants to build on the positive measures adopted in 2009, which allowed the legalization of hundreds of thousands of workers involved in helping families."

The proposal of the Democratic Party takes over almost verbatim to the procedure already used last year to bring out three hundred thousand chores, but applying it to other areas. These, says Turkish, "will be chosen from time to time by the Ministry of Labour in consultation with the Interior in order to avoid unnecessary steps or generalized amnesty."

The parliamentary initiative comes in conjunction with the noisy protests of Brescia and Milan. "We do not want the aggravation of immigrants end up on the crane. To insist with the Bossi-Fini law, which does not include regular entries, which provides for deportation after serving six months without employment contract and that only brought an increase in clandestine means continue to cause serious social and economic damage to the country, "concludes the Immigration Officer of the Democratic Party.

UIL: "A solution for the undocumented workers"

Rome - November 12, 2010 - A solution "just and possible" for those who, having a job, stayed out of the regularization. This is the appeal of the UIL in the face of extreme forms of protest in place in Brescia and Milan.

"There are many cases of foreigners who participated in the process of emergence and were deluded that their application was accepted, even if they had been hit by a warrant of deportation. Unfortunately, at the beginning the rules were not clear, and as such were required subsequent judgments to clarify who was entitled to the adjustment or not, "said William Loy, confederal secretary of the UIL.

"Today - said the union - the situation could get complicated in the absence of proposals for the reasonable solution."

According to the UIL, the way forward "is not one of despair." It serves instead "a comparison of the merits of legislation to improve in order to respond to the reality of thousands of people who work honestly, even without having a valid residence permit."

"We call on the government - concludes Loy - to take control of the situation immediately and find a just and possible."