Glad to see some common sense around here.

The TG2 shown some interesting stats gathered by the ISTAT during a special report about a month ago (I watched it on Tv so can't link it here):
Italian emigration is up 11% from 2011, counting between 85-90 thousands people moving out in 2012/13. And it's been going on for a while, past statistics shown just slightly inferior numbers.

But they don't come here because it's not worth the bureaucratic madness and the outrageously expensive legal fees.

Like Carmela said: they're not Mexicans.
Not even Somali refugees I should add. Which means that they're not that desperate.

The same ISTAT data shown the average contemporary Italian immigrant to be:

- 25-34 yrs old;
- male;
- from Northern Italy (note: their last residence before emigrating. Many Southerns take a chance up North before deciding to move away.);
- with at least a Bachelor's Degree;

They go to better off EU nations due to the fact that they don't need a visa to work there and because most do score quite high quality-of-life-wise: Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, France, the UK (which to Italians means London) and, to a much lesser extent, Scandinavian countries.

As far as non-EU nations, Switzerland is still n.1, even more than the aforementioned ones.
Canada follows far behind.
They do need visas to work/live there but it's easier to obtain one than here.