"I agree very much what you re doing with respect to migration and illegal immigration and even legal immigration " Efe Trump as saying in his remarks welcoming Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to the White House.
Along those lines Trump remarked that the Italian government "has taken a very firm stance on the border" something that he said other countries should do commenting that "some have taken that stance a long time ago and they re doing a lot better".
Trump has repeatedly claimed that there is a lack of border control in the US and has insisted on the need to build a wall along the US-Mexican border to halt the arrival of illegal migrants.
The Italian government pushed by controversial Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has launched a firm migration control policy to close the country s ports to humanitarian organizations that are attempting to save lives among illegal migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.
Conte a neophyte with no political base of his own was proposed for the post of prime minister by the two parties that got the most votes in the Italian elections: the anti-establishment Five-Star Movement and Salvini s far-right Lega party.
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