The European Union (EU) border agency Frontex has released new statistical data showing that the tough migrant policies of Italian populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini have drastically reduced illegal migration. The EU agency revealed that the Mediterranean migrant route numbers had dropped from 118,962 in 2017 to 23,276 in 2018, a decline of around 80 percent following the formation of the populist coalition government of Salvini’s Lega and the Five Star Movement Il Giornale reports. According to the data, the number of illegals in 2018 is the lowest amount since 2012 and showed that while Italy had sen a massive decline due to Salvini’s policies, socialist-led Spain had seen a 157 percent rise in crossings by the sea in 2018. Fabrice Leggeri, director of Frontex commented on the newly released figures saying, “the Libyan route has become less attractive, because of the dangers,” and said that the trend of decline int he central Mediterranean had begun in the summer of 2017 and increased the following year. Frontex Warns of Tens of Thousands of Migrants Currently En Route to Europe https://t.co/vlwpakeh2V — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 19, 2018 Vice-President of the Italian Senate, Roberto Calderoli a member of Salvini’s Lega, said that while the report did not explicitly mention Salvini, it
