The government suffers its first breach due to the immigration crisis. The second vice-president and minister of labor, Yolanda Diazaccused this Thursday Pedro Sanchez to “follow the same migratory recipes as the right”, after the president declared during his African tour that the return of those who arrived irregularly in Spain was “essential”.
“Following the same recipes as the right is a failure and a mistake. Our policies must be welcoming and solidarity“We are not talking about mass deportations. We are talking about human rights,” the vice president said in X, without explicitly referring to Sánchez’s comments.
Díaz also urged the president to “regularize the hundreds of thousands of essential workers who live today” in Spain but whose “rights are not guaranteed.”
The second vice-president thus shows a division within the Executive on how to approach the problem. immigration policy and the crisis that has emerged in recent months.
Sánchez seeks to discourage irregular immigration by promoting regular immigration with job offers, as he did in Mauritania Tuesday, but at the same time he considers it important to expel thousands of foreigners who arrived without papers, as he said yesterday in Gambia.
For their part, Yolanda Díaz and Sumar do not support the return of illegal immigrants to their countries of origin, as requested by Sánchez, and associate the president with the PP and Vox, which demand “mass expulsions.”
