You can hear the loathing and disgust in the voices of Britain’s Channel 4 News team for Italy’s new Deputy Prime Minister/Interior Minister – Matteo Salvini – who has warned Muslim illegals to pack their bags because the good times are over for them, as mass deportations are about to begin. In just his first few weeks in office, Salvini has turned away several George Soros-funded NGO ‘Rescue boats (which get their human cargo from criminal smugglers and traffickers) that had more than 2,000 African Muslim illegal aliens aboard.

CNBC Salvini also tweeted: “Reduce landings, increase repatriations, with ejection centres in each region, stronger agreements with countries of origin. Our government will say NO to reform Dublin regulations because it condemns Mediterranean countries to be on their own.”

European rules, under the Dublin Regulation, require migrants to request asylum in the first EU country they arrive in, meaning that Italy and other “frontline” nations have had to register, process and detain hundred of thousands of migrants.

“Instead of helping Italy, they (other European interior ministers) would want to make it even more burdensome. The Italian government will say ‘no’ to the reform of the Dublin Regulation and the new asylum policies because they condemn the countries of the Mediterranean — Italy, Spain, Cyprus and Malta — to be alone,” Salvini said

The right-wing Lega party, which formed a coalition government with Five-Star Movement (M5S) last week, is the driving force behind anti-immigration rhetoric and it is looking to fulfil a pledge to deport as many as 500,000 illegal mainly Muslim migrants.

Lega leader Matteo Salvini — who is now Italy’s deputy prime minister and interior minister — reiterated the government’s aim to deport illegal migrants on a recent visit to Sicily. The island, which has been a major point of arrival and detention for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea, had to stop being “the refugee camp of Europe,” Salvini told reporters.

“It is not enough to reduce the numbers of people arriving. We need to increase deportations,” he said. Speaking at a rally in northern Italy, Salvini had told the Muslim illegals: “get ready to pack your bags.”

Italy has struggled to cope with the high number of migrants — both economic migrants and refugees , mainly from sub-Saharan Africa — arriving on its shores in recent years.

Salvini said the only way to avoid more deaths of Muslim illegals at sea was to stop people getting on boats in the first place. He caused a diplomatic row by accusing Tunisia of sending “convicts” over to Italy in migrant boats.

He said he would increase repatriations despite the logistical and financial — not to mention, humanitarian — implications of such a move.

Whatever European officials think, migration is a bone of contention for the public and any promises to restrain or restore a sense of order to the immigration system, whether feasible or not, is popular with the public.

Salvini and his fellow coalition leader, Luigi Di Maio, head of M5S and the new minister for labor and economic development, know this. It’s not for nothing that the Lega party campaigned ahead of the March 4 election with the slogan “Prima gli Italiani” — Italians first.

Salvini didn’t miss an opportunity to criticize Italy’s EU membership and international organizations on Sunday, saying they had not helped to solve the migrant crisis in Italy and the wider region.

“I want to highlight that Italy every year sends 6 billion euros in cash to Brussels,” he said. “I cannot give these 6 billion euros to Brussels and then let them damage us on the fronts of agriculture, migration, fishing, commerce and finance. Why am I giving 6 billion to receive nothing in return?