It’s a gift from the PSOE, not God. I hope they recognise and remember that.
Is that one party of the current admin in Spain?
The second government of Pedro Sánchez formed after the November 2019 Spanish general election consisted of a left-wing coalition between the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos, the country’s first such nationwide government since the Second Spanish Republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Spanish_general_election
I guess it would probably be fair to say from Unidas Podemos as well but I don’t know enough about Spanish politics and the article explicitly named PSOE. Unidas Podemos are the more left wing of the two though so probably.
Thanks for clarifying.
heathen Socialists are doing the gods work.
Christmas are doing the opposite
The news cycle always seems to hype the initial action/reaction, and often remains silent about the actual thing, does not report how exactly it happens, and more importantly, rarely follows up.
In about a year from now on I’d like to read a headline like “Spain’s legalising of immigrants a full success despite nazi whining” or some such.
The same applies to e.g. Trump/Greenland - social media was ablast with his outrageous threats, but now that they actually made some sort of deal (which disgusts me btw), it isn’t talked about anymore?
Despite the shrill political opposition to regularisation, it is far from unprecedented in Spain; PP and socialist governments enacted similar programmes between 1986 and 2005. Research suggests such initiatives can yield economic benefits for newly legalised workers and for government coffers.
Joan Monràs, one of the authors of a study into the 2005 regularisation of almost 600,000 non-EU immigrants, said tax revenues increased by about €4,000 per regularised immigrant a year, adding that the policy had not led to “magnet effects” in encouraging further arrivals.
I watch a lot of reporting and documentaries, which does cover things like that.
News formats, sadly, mostly have this reactionary and initial reporting of change like you say. Sadly, it also covers change and outliers more than by significance.
On X this week, Elon Musk reposted a claim that Sánchez was using the move to conduct “electoral engineering” adding: “Wow.” Sánchez reposted the SpaceX tycoon’s comment with a reply of his own: “Mars can wait. Humanity can’t.” Amid the squabbling and point-scoring, some of those who have spent years campaigning for regularisation have called for reflection about what the decree means and why it is needed. Catholic groups, including the migration department of the Spanish conference of bishops, see the measure as “an act of social justice and recognition of so many migrants who, through their work, have long contributed to the development of our country, even at the cost of keeping them in an irregular situation”.
Are those papers to stabilize the monitor? /s oh god /o\
