The Right-Wing Immigration Paradox

How Meloni’s Italy shows that immigration isn’t necessarily a Left–Right divide — only a difference in motives.

We’re used to thinking of immigration as a partisan issue:
The Left welcomes it; the Right resists it.
But in Italy today, that distinction has collapsed.

Giorgia Meloni’s government, the self-proclaimed defender of national borders, is presiding over one of the largest expansions of migrant labour inflows in Italian history.

Despite all the rhetoric about …