The Government is scheduled to approve this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers the reform of the Immigration Regulations to promote an extraordinary regularization of at least 500,000 migrant people,
A measure agreed with Podemos and that has already generated a frontal response from the Popular Party and Vox, which have announced a battery of appeals at the national and European level to stop the initiative, and which adds to the rejection that both formations have been expressing against the norm since it was announced.
The PP defends a migratory approach based on "order and legality"
From the PP, the Deputy Secretary of Sectoral Coordination, Alma Ezcurra, has warned in a press conference that her party will use “all political, parliamentary, and legal instruments” available in Spain and in the European Union to stop what it considers an “outrage.” “There will be no political, parliamentary, or legal instrument that the PP will not use to denounce this decision,” she stressed.
Ezcurra has defended a migratory approach based on “order and legality”, rejecting both “open arms without order” and “closed fists without compassion”. In his speech, he insisted that “whoever comes to contribute will be welcome, whoever commits a crime will have to leave”, and has questioned the Executive's promotion of a measure without yet specifying “how many people are regularized, who they are, or what their legal and criminal situation is”.
The PP also maintains that the initiative has not had institutional consensus and assures that it has been rejected by the Senate, several autonomous communities governed by its party and, according to its version, also by European consultative bodies. The party accuses the Government of generating a "pull effect" that could incentivize irregular immigration and "favor mafias".
The battle also reaches the EU
The PP has already transferred the issue to the European Commission, requesting that it analyze its fit with community regulations. In the European Parliament, the 'popular' MEP Dolors Montserrat has warned of possible risks of “pull effect” and the “empowerment of trafficking mafias”.
Meanwhile, communities governed by the Popular Party have announced appeals before the Constitutional Court, in an institutional front that is now expanding with the announcement by Vox before the Supreme Court.
Vox will take the measure before the Supreme Court
For its part, Vox has announced that it will take the measure before the Supreme Court and will request its precautionary suspension as soon as it is approved. Its general secretary, Ignacio Garriga, has accused the Executive of promoting what he considers an “institutionalization of the migratory invasion” and has criticized that it is processed by decree.
Santiago Abascal's party maintains that regularization will lead to a “collapse of public services” and has announced a political campaign to denounce its economic and social impact. Furthermore, Vox insists on its “Spaniards first” approach, advocating restricting access to aid for those who have not previously contributed to the system.
Coinciding with the approval of the decree they intend to appeal before the Supreme Court, Vox will launch this Tuesday a specific campaign to denounce "the cost" and the "consequences" of what it defines as a "migratory invasion, promoted and financed" for years by both the PSOE as well as by the PP.
The Government defends the measure as an ordered regularization
The Executive, for its part, justifies the reform as a way to bring hundreds of thousands of people already residing in Spain out of irregularity, taking as reference similar processes in the past, such as that of 2005. The decree will avoid its passage through Congress, which has been one of the main points of criticism from the opposition.
From the Government it is defended that the measure seeks “to order the administrative situation” of these migrants and reduce the irregular economy, in addition to strengthening labor and social integration.