The reason? According to Church organizations, it is necessary that “our communities” acquire a new "grammar of communication" that is "adherent to the facts and respectful of people".
The immigration report
In their Report Immigration, Caritas and Migrantes monitored the news regarding immigration that appeared in the prime time news programs of the Rai networks, Mediaset and La7. And what comes out of it? That in twelve years pieces, services and minutes dedicated to the topic of immigration have grown exponentially, up to ten times as much as in the past. In fact, we arrived from 380 news of 2005 all 4.268 of the 2017.
According to the report there would be a correlation between the flows migratory who arrive in the Bel Paese, the media interest in immigrants and "events of a political nature" that concern the country. “It's striking to note – we read – that the feeling of threat to safety and public order traced back to immigration experienced since 2013 constant growth. During the 2017 prime time news programs mostly focus on migratory flows (40%), reserving almost half of the news for the numbers and management of landings on the Italian coasts. An additional one 34% of the tele-journalistic services is dedicated to issues relating to immigration, crime and security“.
Caritas and Migrantes criticize the fact that they are almost never there “good news” sui migrants. To the story of the welcome, Indeed, In the 2017 only 11% of the news was reserved. But there must be a reason, no?

In fact, there is data to certify the boom in crimes involving immigrants. Cold numbers. To reveal them, as written by Newspaper, it was there Hume Foundation in the analysis entitled “Crime and Immigration in Italy”. The data comes from Istat, who put them together by asking the prosecutors and the Ministry of the Interior (therefore taking into account both convictions or open proceedings and simple complaints). What comes of it? That in all types of crime the crimes of immigrants are greater, in proportion to the population, to those of the natives. You are surprised? No. But apparently Caritas does. For example in voluntary homicides from 2006 al 2015 the accused immigrants grew by 22% while the natives have decreased by 17%.
Similar data they had been spread by Interior Ministry also for the 2018. Among the crimes reported to foreigners, sexual violence was on the rise (+5,7%), the robber (+5,7%), the thefts (+5,1%), scams and computer fraud (+4,3%), up to obviously drug-related crimes (+5,2%). And to think that crimes by foreigners are increasing, the general ones are decreasing. In general between 1 January and 30 June of 2018 have been reported and/or arrested 429.506 people, of which 136.876 foreigners (il 31,9% of the total). After all, the same Migrantes report also certifies that “al 31 December 2017 the prison population matters 19.745 foreign prisoners among defendants, convicted and interned. Compared to the same period of 2016, when immigrants were 18.621, If it registers an increase in +6%“.
The Caritas alarm
Yet Caritas carries on. “We have heard how stereotypes about migration can create collective hysteria – said Don Francesco Soddu, director of the Italian Caritas – we cannot ignore the concern for the construction of clichés about migrants and those who work to host them. NGOs are portrayed as enemy number one“. According to Soddu “there is a distorted narrative of the migration phenomenon”. And so there the she is ready to “promote everything that can contribute to the containment of this cultural drift“.