This law was issued past July 31st 2005 and it provides for dispositions that will increase control and repression measures against terrorist activities. The law though also provides for dispositions that will make less dangerous people lives more difficult and above all regular migrants’ ones.
– Residence papers issued because of inquiries
Novelties concerning the so-called war on terror are not particularly interesting.
A new permit was made up: residence papers issued on basis of inquiries. These papers are a sort of a reward to those irregular migrants that wish to co-operate in inquiries concerning crimes linked to international terrorism.
These residence papers – which are to be very discretionally issued – are just a reproduction of a former permit provided for by Immigration consolidated act article 18 (the well known social protection permit), this permit was in the past issued to those citizens that reported of some serious crimes. This kind of papers could therefore be converted into residence papers allowing to labour.
According to our point of view, this sort of papers are made up as a consequence of the will of showing that something is being done (don’t forget that this new permit is identical to the former social protection one).
– Expulsions
Again the new rules are a bluff! The rules concerning expulsion reveal to be useless. New instruments seem to be created but the truth is that the government re-elaborated former rules: expulsions were provided for by Immigration consolidated act (and before by Martelli law and by 1931 laws) and they could come because of public order and State’s security.
Expulsion because of country’s security matters is to be immediate, court’s suspension cannot come since technical times cannot be respected. Therefore a new disposition seems to be useless, since former ones were just respecting the same effort.
– Appeals
Article 3 paragraph 5 concerns appeals against expulsions orders and it provides for that court’s sentence depends on the knowledge of provisions’ acts.
The acquisition of acts is not possible and therefore appeals are suspended until acts, their main contents are finally to be communicated.
In other words, appeals are suspended until secret of state or inquiry’s secret is over. We do not understand why the government issued a new law that states exactly the same things as former one. Government wanted us to think that something was being done but the sole result of these policies is the increasing of social alarm: fear and panic against foreigners that become potentially dangerous subjects.
Law 155/2005 – urgent measures fighting international terrorism – also provide for some rules that seem to have very little to do with such matter.
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Concealment