Fresh wave of boat people granted residency by Italy; "Last Chance Armada" at hand?

These stories always immediately remind me of that classic book "Le Camp des Saints" that I had the pleasure to read some years ago.

Synopsis (tho none too short):
In the early 1970s, French author Jean Raspail wrote one of the most famous and haunting political-allegorical novels of the 20th century, "The Camp of the Saints". The setting is the modern West; Starvation plagues the Indian-subcontinent and several million starving Muslims and Hindus decide to gather up whatever oceanliners in their country they can find. They acquire hundreds of them, each capable of holding thousands of people; They fill up the ships with their starving masses and "set sail" bound for the Western countries where food is plentiful. They decide to sail to the shores of southern France; they figure that if they get shot at upon their attempted "illegal immigration" they will die, but if they stay home they will die anyway, so it's worth a shot. The world quickly dubs this ominous fleet of ships steadily progressing towards Europe, "The Last Chance Armada" for that reason. Most of the action in the novel takes place in France, detailing the reactions to the news of this armada by all sorts of groups in society: politicians, news-media, civic-groups, churches, "students", the military, immigrants, and simple apolitical regular working-class French people. In a word, local [French, European] resistance to the impending fleet is soon enough all-but strangled out by political correctness and cries of racism; French and other European governments are hesitant to open their doors but lack the will to shoot at the fleet of wretches who face certain mass-death by starvation. There is no way to turn them away besides slaughtering them. The climax comes when the fleet begins to land on the southern coast of France and the masses of gaunt people start walking ashore. The army is deployed but most soldiers had long since deserted their units amid the chaos in France in the days before the expected landing. The handful of defenders who stay loyal and try to put up a fight are actively sabotaged by leftist French youth who murder any soldiers they can find and disrupt flows of supplies south and so on (this was written not many years after the craziness of late-60s "student movements" in France). Because no real resistance at all ultimately occurs, the mass of raw humanity (1 million+ strong) from the Last Chance Armada succeeds in establishing itself in France; the novel ends with news that new fleets are being formed at that very moment all over the Third World, after the success of the Last Chance Armada.

The novel was clearly meant from the beginning to be an allegory, a metaphor. No one seriously proposes that the End of Europe "as we knew it" would come from an armada of starving wretches sailing to Europe and then walking ashore; nor per se from "illegal immigration" by boat people as such. The primary allegorical device of the story is in the form of the tremendous compression of time: Everything in the story is already happening and has been happening for decades now, just in a more drawn out manner.