What is the final result of letting illegal immigrants work as agricultural workers in Italy?

Italy originally intended to hire foreigners to do farm work in Italy. A few years ago, the effect seemed to be good. A few years ago, 800,000 foreign migrant workers submitted their applications to Italy. However, affected by the epidemic this year, the number of applicants decreased by 750,000 compared with last year. Many farmers say that no one wants to harvest crops, and a large number of crops are abandoned in the fields. If we can't find a suitable method, Italian agriculture may suffer a huge blow this year.

After Germany took in refugees, the negative impact of refugees on society was really too great. European countries are disgusted with refugees and illegal immigrants. Just like Britain and Greece during the epidemic, they have not relaxed their border management, but have become stricter. After all, some people may take the opportunity to flee to Europe. However, Italy did the opposite. Don't refugees just want to make money in Europe? They don't need to be granted legal citizenship at all, as long as they are regarded as foreign employees.

Italy has a large amount of cultivated land, but there is a serious shortage of farmers, so it has completed the mechanized production in China. However, some agricultural products can not be collected by machine, but only by hand. Therefore, the Italian government issued decrees to people in some countries, allowing them to submit applications to help farmers harvest crops in Italy during the busy farming season. In this way, Italy achieved its agricultural goal, farmers got a bumper harvest, and those illegal immigrants also made money, killing two birds with one stone.

But this year, because of the epidemic, those hired workers did not choose to go to Italy where the epidemic was serious. At present, there are less than 20,000 foreigners applying for entry, which is far from meeting the demand of agricultural production in Italy, and this number has decreased by more than 700,000 compared with last year. And some hired workers in Italy also plan to return home to avoid the epidemic. Perhaps the effect of this policy will disappoint the Italian government this year. Those crops are likely to rot in the ground because no one will harvest them.