Italy has been really though on immigration only in words, it is kafkaesque but detention camps in Northern Africa were made under a center left government by Marco Minniti in 2017. Now that we have a center right to right government (or maybe far right, I don't know how to classify people who refuse to repude fascism and who are in parties that are the direct descendants of the far right parties in the 80/90s) their ideas of a sea blockade fell through (well, who would have expected that). At the same time, government is - and the right parties were, when they weren't in charge - pushing against the ngos such as open arms, while ngos rescue only ~5-10% of the immigrants, while the rest is saved by the Italian coast guard. The idea of a pull factor isn't true as well [1]

It's a shit show, at the end we're still in "need" of slave labour to work in tomato fields and to do unskilled jobs because almost no Italian would do them

[1] https://pagellapolitica.it/articoli/meloni-piantedosi-pull-f...

> Unfettered or not, immigration is inevitable for the west.

That assumes birthrates elsewhere are high enough to sustain that, but they're declining everywhere. Immigration is basically just exporting the low birthrate problem to someplace less equipped to deal with it (which is par for the course for rich, western countries).

I expect we'll start to see emigration controls in the not too distant future.

>someplace less equipped to deal with it

I think China's approach would become the blueprint for third world countries eventually dealing with this.

Unfortunately China doesn't seem to have an approach yet, other than doubling down on more and more authoritarian measures to lock down the economy.

> Unfortunately China doesn't seem to have an approach yet, other than doubling down on more and more authoritarian measures to lock down the economy.

IIRC, they've only tried carrots so far, which hasn't worked. My bet is they'll turn to sticks, sooner rather than later, and have a lot of experience with them due to the one child policy.

I wouldn't be surprised if they start to fine the childless and/or limit childless women's advancement opportunities at work.

Yes I agree, birth rates are down everywhere. Interestingly they are rapidly declining in countries where most of these legal migrants come from.

I do not agree with emigration controls. At least not in the next 50 years!