Lega: ‘We are working on revoking residence permits for those who commit crimes’

Milan, 17 May (LaPresse) – Lega Secretary Matteo Salvini ‘has tasked a group of legal experts with finalising the security proposals put forward in recent days by his party’s MEPs, starting with the revocation of residence permits for foreigners who commit crimes, with immediate deportation’. The aim is to ‘make effective and enforceable a mechanism (modelled on the points-based driving licence system) that provides for the revocation of residence permits for those who commit serious crimes’. ‘The residence permit granted to an immigrant is an act of generosity and trust on the part of the Italian people: if this trust is betrayed, revocation of the permit and expulsion must become the rule.’ So reads a statement from the League.