The decree provides for the creation of new reception centers for repatriation, makes cuts in the time asylum requests are examined and eliminates a layer of justice for appeals. It gives asylum-seekers the possibility to do socially useful work and allocates 19 million euros for the execution of expulsions. The sit-in was staged on the eve of the final approval of the decree, by representatives of associations, unions and political parties.Participants criticized measures in the legislation, including new rules to appeal against the rejection of international protection, quicker expulsion procedures and the role of new reception centers for repatriation. Protesters called for the opening of humanitarian corridors and to increase resettlements among the migrants. 'Law criminalizes the weak', critics say Filippo Miraglia, a member of NGO ARCI, one of the demonstration's promoters, said that ''with this legislation the government criminalizes migrants, those seeking protection," calling it a ''judicial crime'' in which the rights of ''those without a voice are scrapped''.Protesters accused the measure of reducing the rights of asylum seekers and giving tribunals more work.They vowed to appeal against the legislation in court as it ''violates the Constitution''.The leader of the Italian Left (Sinistra Italiana, SI) caucus, Nicola Fratoianni, expressed his party's opposition to the legislation, calling it a ''myopic, inefficient choice which is unacceptable on an ethical, civil and juridical level''.

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