In Rome, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has proposed legislation that would limit the concentration of foreign students in classrooms, ban face-covering garments in schools, and require Italian-language instruction for struggling immigrant parents. The measures arrive as Italy's longest-serving modern government seeks to define, through law, what integration ought to look like — and who bears responsibility for achieving it. At the heart of the debate lies an ancient tension: how a society holds open its doors while insisting that those who enter learn to speak its language, read its si