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2024 pro-migrant decision

In 2023, Albano drew attention for expressing support for illegal migrants against the democratically elected

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government's efforts to move processing offshore to enforce Italian laws. She previously, in 2019, battled then-interior minister Matteo Salvini who described her as having "pro-migrant sympathies". She had also, in 2021, ruled against the government's policy of pushing illegal migrants back to Slovenia prior to being admitted in Italy. She gained notoriety in 2024 for her decision against the Italian government's offshore detention of illegal migrants in Albania which was heavily criticized. In response, she declared she is not a "communist judge". She also filed a police complaint and was given additional protection following death threats. Conservative politicians declared that she should have abstained from the decision given her history of left-wing activism and donations. She has come under attack from Meloni and

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who described her as a political judge for the left-wing

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and called for her resignation.

Personal life

Albano is from

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but has long lived in

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