Migrants suffer amid rising anti-immigration sentiment in Italy | News

Milan, Italy – Migrants sit on green plastic chairs in a soundless waiting room. Volunteers call them over, one by one. On a coffee table, Italy’s populist politicians look up from the front page of an unread newspaper. “Italy has changed a lot,” says Aboud, a 43-year-old Moroccan migrant who is “trying to obtain a leave” permit to remain and asks to be identified by his first name only. He sits