"From when Prime Minister Berlusconi got into power, Italy changed. It's become a country afraid of

enemies."

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2010/10/30/984730_berlusconi-behind-anti-immigration-wave-in-italy

Berlusconi behind anti-immigration wave in Italy

"From when Prime Minister Berlusconi got into power, Italy changed. It's become a country afraid of enemies. The enemy who is the black man on the street. The enemy is the person who speaks differently; who is a different color, the enemy is a poor person - pure and simple," said Mesquita Mattias came here from Angola 10 years ago.

The Northern League now wields considerable power in Mr. Berlusconi's coalition government. The party's regional president is Antonio Gambetta Vianna.

Laws passed last year mean illegal immigrants can be fined $14,000 and jailed for up to six months. Those who offer them lodging can be sent to jail for three years. Even the Vatican has criticized the measures.

"We have globalized the economies, we have globalized communication, we have globalized the Internet," said (director of a soup kitchen for immigrants, Alessandro) Martini. "Now it's time for us to globalize integration and immigration. It's time to globalize, in a humane way, the way we treat and welcome foreigners."
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The right wing (Berlusconi) and the far right (Northern League) strike again with their newest "blame our problems on 'the others'" campaign. Today it's illegal immigrants; yesterday it was the Roma; tomorrow who knows who gets to be "the others".

sounds like....here.