This is confirmed by all parliamentary sources consulted by this newspaper. But the Popular Party, a political group that the government accuses of “xenophobic attitudes copied from the extreme right”, says it is willing for the regulatory process to be launched. The bill provides for the extraordinary regularization of “between 390,000 and 470,000 peoplea third of whom would be minors.”
The popular, according to official sources, assure that they voted in favor of taking into account the norm last April, because They believe in it. For humanity and for the economy.. “Of course, with all the reservations that must be studied and debated with the rest of the groups.”
And what is the PP’s starting condition? “That regularizations be studied on a case-by-case basis.” Even if it involves hundreds of thousands of people? “There are ways to do it,” replies a spokesman from Genoa. And he later claims that this had already been done in previous processes similar to the one proposed by the ILP.
Between 1985 and 2005, Spanish governments promoted up to nine extraordinary regularizations, five with the PP in the Council of Ministers, four with the PSOE. In total, more than 1.25 million people They received their residence and work permits. In each of these processes, the requirements were different, but all, with more or less detail, “were examined individually”.
The rule that Wednesday must be promoted or stopped again has already been eight extensions of the modification periodThis is what MPs do sleep a text that no one ends up convincing for reasons of political or media expediency.
“It will remain in the drawer”explains a member of the so-called “investiture majority”, a partner in the coalition government. “It is possible that during the entire legislature,” adds another from the opposition.
This doesn’t suit anyone
The proposal was submitted to Congress in February of last year. Shortly after, Pedro Sanchez He dissolved the Chambers, but as it was an ILP, he did not decline with the rest of the projects and bills of the Government or political groups. Thus, the past April 9 The plenary session confirmed takes into consideration with 310 votes for and only 33 (those of Vox) against.
Last week, during Sánchez’s African tour, the PP spokesman in Congress, Miguel Telladoreacted surprised by the president’s offer in Mauritania of 250,000 annual jobs for migrants from that country and the next countries he will visit, Gambia and Senegal.
“While governments like Germany are talking about mass expulsions,” Tellado said, “Sánchez is committing the irresponsibility of going back to the origin of the problem.” to encourage him, instead of stopping him“.
In an interview with EL ESPAÑOL this Sunday, the right hand of Alberto Nuñez Feijoo influenced Sánchez’s contradictory message. And in his “inability” to respond to the emergency of unaccompanied minors “who are accumulating in the Canary Islands and Ceuta because the government does not put in a single euro“to your attention in other Autonomous Communities.
The problem is that the current political debate on the immigration crisis is not helping to reactivate the norm. Nor is it opportune for the government to raise the spectre of a “massive regularizations” Nor does the opposition have any interest in diverting attention to a “migration and humanitarian emergency” This is what is happening in Sánchez’s executive.
Feijóo opened himself up to the possibility of promote “individual regularizations” This Monday, in a radio interview, the ILP asked that it could be postponed again until Wednesday. But the Galician leader especially stressed that Sánchez “does not have an immigration policy” and He uses the Menas as hostages of his political strategy.
Sources from the Canary Islands government put it even more clearly: “They want to force a break between the CC and the PP, but they will not succeed”.
Canary Islands and Ceuta
Also this Monday, the Canary Islands Executive issued an order to the nation. Tired of not receiving a response to its calls for help for more than a year, the government of Fernando Clavijo will refuse to accept even a single unaccompanied foreign minor (menas) arriving on its shores.
This is the answer to the pressure from the Interior, this weekend, using the demands of the prosecution to force NGOs and Canarian officials to accept more minors in El Hierro “when we can no longer care for those who are there with dignity.” According to Clavijo’s statements to this newspaper, “If the government wants to be scrupulous, so are we”.
Thus, relying on the literal nature of the 1996 Juvenile Law and its regulations, the island’s executive power will refuse to consider as “powerless” the men that Maritime Rescue saves. In this way, it will be able to refuse to let them pass under its jurisdiction, “since if they are in the custody of the State”, on a Salvamar ship, “they already benefit from protection”.
Also this Wednesday, the Canarian president will travel to Ceuta to meet Juan Jesus Vivasthe president of the Spanish autonomous city in North Africa, which has seen its emergency triple since last year. 1,917 irregular migrants have arrived in your city so far this year… twice as much as in the whole of 2023.
The Minister of Youth and Children will be in Ceuta, Sira Regowho had planned a visit to the city to respond to Vivas’ calls for “help.” Clavijo will also try to meet her, looking for solutions.
… everything will happen this Wednesday. The same day that the members of the Congress Council (with a majority of the PSOE and its partners) must decide If the ILP andas the only article of the proposal says, the nearly 500,000 “foreigners” who are in Spanish territory before November 1, 2021″ must keep waiting.
