Lower House Speaker Laura
Boldrini on Tuesday hailed passage of a citizenship bill for
immigrants' children.
"The House today helped bring down a wall, at a time in
which walls are sadly becoming popular again...it brought down a
barrier that has kept so many young and very young new Italians
separate from their play and schoolmates," she said.
"Once the Senate also has its say, a disparity of rights
that had become unbearable in the daily experience of hundreds
of thousands of families will be no more," she went on.
"This vote...strengthens our national identity, because it
shows a capacity to include new citizens into our culture, our
values, our rights and responsibilities".
"I wish to thank all the grassroots organizations, the
immigrant community, and the second-generation networks for
incessantly prodding parliament on this issue," she said.
"I hope that after this first fundamental step, we can see
our way to...a process for granting citizenship to adult
immigrants as well," Boldrini concluded.
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