Versione italiana: Remigriamoli Tutti
Yes, I'm saying we should remigrate them. No — deport them. All of them, down to the last one.
They live here, in our country, the one we had the privilege of being born in, and with sheer ingratitude they drain our resources, take our jobs, and drive prices up.
Our children won't get to live a decent life, the way our fathers did, because of them.
They move into buildings that should belong to our splendid community, they ship their money out of the country, and they live in neighborhoods we can't afford to set foot in.
The rich should be deported. Parasites of modern society.
What? You thought (or maybe hoped) I was talking about immigrants? And why not the rich? Or the politicians? Or the tax dodgers? Maybe it's just easier to go after a group that can't fight back?
But now explain this to me: how exactly does deporting (oops... remigrating) a bunch of people put more money in our pockets? How does it get us housing, pensions, stability, security?
Remigration policies aren't feasible. They exist to make noise and, along the way, collect a few votes and a bit of money.
Let's set aside the taboo on mass deportation for a moment and pretend these policies actually start tomorrow.
- Which authorities do we send to round these people up, house by house, family by family?
- Whose money pays for the repatriations? And if we expect the countries of origin to foot the bill: why would they pay, and why on earth would they take the migrants back?
- Who does the jobs currently done by immigrants, documented and undocumented alike?
- If we deport legal residents too, how many generations back do we go? Is a second-generation girl, born and raised here, Italian or foreign? Do we deport her? And the Americans and Canadians studying and working here — non-EU citizens, every one of them — do we deport them too? No? Funny, that.
- And suppose we've deported them all: now what? Do we have more housing, better pensions, more security? Do our best and brightest come flooding back?
This post is not a defense of the failed migration policies of the last twenty years. The problems are there, and they are real. But the solution is not to move a group of people around like a scapegoat you can pin every failure on.
Because remigration was never designed to be carried out. It was designed to be talked about. Its product isn't deportation: it's the noise, the hijacked debate, the harvested vote. And that's the real cost — not that it will happen, because it won't. But every year spent debating how to send them away is a year nobody spends debating your pension, your rent, your paycheck.
The scapegoat isn't free. You pay for it. In time.