Interpretation of Italian Immigration Law

For Italians in the 1930s, when the word "immigration" was mentioned, most people would think of emigrating from Italy to somewhere in the United States or Argentina. Few Italians would have thought that foreigners would immigrate to Italy. So in 36 years, when someone started to discuss the new immigration law, it did not attract the attention of most Italian nationals.

It can even be said that there is only one person in the country who is keen on the bill, and that is the great leader Mussolini. However, because the leaders insisted on these actions, it did no harm to everyone, and finally the bill was passed quickly.

1 936 April1With the great impetus of Mussolini, King Emmanuel III of Italy announced that the new immigration law finally came into effect. In this bill, the concept of "investment immigration" was first put forward. According to the regulations on investment immigration, this means that anyone who has certain assets and a certain degree of industrial and commercial operation or management experience can obtain permanent residency in Italy through investment.

According to the new immigration law, immigration applicants must meet two most important conditions related to money: first, they must have a net asset of at least 40 Wan Li (about 50,000 imperial marks, and the average wage of German industrial workers in10.5 imperial marks per week in 936); Secondly, invest at least 1o Wanli in the "Renaissance Fund" supervised by the Italian government for a period of 7 years; After the expiration, the Italian government will return the immigrants with interest at an annual interest rate of 0.5% (such a low interest rate makes this money equivalent to being used by the Italian government for seven years in vain).

Moreover, the Italian government stipulates that in order to regulate the behavior of immigrants, if immigrants have any illegal acts (including minor illegal acts such as "running a red light") in Italy in the first seven years, their funds in the "Renaissance Fund" will be confiscated and deported.

It can be said that the requirements of this law for immigrants are quite harsh. At that time, most Italians thought that the implementation of the bill would not change their lives: because of the high immigration threshold, there would not be a large number of immigrants pouring into Italy. Italians generally believe that the promulgation and implementation of this new immigration law is of little significance. In fact, from March 1936 to March 1937, the total number of people applying for immigration to Italy barely exceeded 1000.

However, since 1938, the number of immigrants from Germany has increased significantly. After the birth of the "Crystal Night" incident (Nazi Party members and SS attacked * people all over Germany) in October/Kloc that year, it reached its peak, and tens of thousands of * people applied to immigrate to Italy in that month alone.

As a traditional Catholic stronghold, religious conflicts have made Italians generally have a bad impression of the people. In order to cope with the influx of immigrants, many politicians have also proposed amending the immigration law to restrict the entry of immigrants. In the face of the surging anti-Semitism in China, Mr. Mussolini, the benevolent leader, clearly expressed his opposition. He believes that all beings are equal and there is no need to amend the existing immigration law in order to restrict the entry of a certain category of people.

Although the great leaders tried their best to stop the passage of the immigration restriction bill, they could not stop the grassroots law enforcement officers from making things difficult for immigrants.

The clever Italian police began to learn to make full use of their power to crack down on the "illegal" behavior of immigrants. After the war, the older generation of immigrants could not tolerate the sexual openness of young people. They always take the Italian police's "strike hard" as an example. They said that a young man organized an opposite dance at home and was deported on the charge of "gathering people to fight".

Of course, after all, these people who came to Italy through the channel of "investment immigration" are rich, and they are "not short of money". Most of them maintain good relations with the Italian police through money and are able to stay in Italy. Later, according to the statistics of meddlers, during this period, the Italian police blackmailed people and became their main source of income, and even the greed of "ten million detectives" appeared.

However, under great social and religious pressure and the support of friendly countries, Italy finally amended its immigration law in April 1939, stipulating that new immigrants must live in Italian African colonies for more than five years before they can settle in Italy. This change has obviously reduced the number of immigrants to Italy, including *.

Although the number of immigrants to Italy dropped sharply after the revision of the immigration law, immigrants left a lot of money in the "revival" fund. By the end of April 1939, the total investment of * * * 30 million immigrants in the "Renaissance" fund has reached more than 200 Wan Li. Most of these funds are loaned to Italian industrial giants such as Fiat, Brayda and oTo at an annual interest rate of about 2%, so as to improve the technical level and productivity of Italian industry by purchasing patents and replacing equipment.