PeterHermesFurian/iStock/ThinkStock(ROME, Italy) — Italy is making it easier for immigrant children to get citizenship.
Right now, children born and raised in Italy by foreigners do not have the right to citizenship.
The soon-to-be approved law was just passed by the lower house. It give anyone who has done at least five years of school in Italy and has at least one parent legally in Italy the right to citizenship.
The law is set to be approved just as the northern Italian town of Salorno stripped Fascist leader Benito Mussolini of his honorary citizenship more than 70 years after his death.
The German-speaking town was conquered by Italy during the First World War. After, Mussolini forced all citizens to change their names to Italian ones and a ban on speaking German.
Other towns in the area have also stripped Mussolini of his citizenship.
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