May 9,
2025
The Right to Asylum
If an
Afghan (or someone from any other homophobic country) arrives and declares
themselves LGBTQIA+, we are obliged to grant political asylum — aside from the
difficulty of verifying such claims.
The same reasoning should apply to an Afghan (or anyone from another nation) who
declares a desire to enjoy the freedoms that are denied to them in their home
country.
Since the majority of the global population does not enjoy these rights,
billions of people would, in theory, be entitled to enter our countries.
In reality, most migrants move for economic reasons, but they can use the lack
of freedoms as a pretext — and this is the core issue.
These asylum principles, now part of our Constitution, were established at a
time when Italy was certainly not a destination for migration waves; on the
contrary, we were the migrants (and to some extent, still are).