The Government plans to approve next Tuesday the reform of the Immigration Regulation for the extraordinary regularization of, at least, 500,000 migrants as Demócrata has learned. This royal decree is the result of the agreement reached last January between Podemos and the Government, and has been criticized by the Popular Party and Vox from the moment the news became known.
Since then, the opposition has not ceased to cast doubt on the suitability and consequences of this mass regularization. Furthermore, the formula chosen by the Government, taking as reference the regularization by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of 2005, allows the measure to be moved forward without the need to pass through Congress.
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PP and Vox have announced a series of appeals and have even taken the issue to the European Union with the aim of preventing it from materializing, for the moment, without success.
The last to do so has been the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso. During the Plenary Session of the Assembly, Ayuso announced that the regional Executive will appeal the reform to the Constitutional Court of the immigration regulations: "I am against the intention of Sánchez's Government to wreck our public services".
To the Supreme Court
The day after the agreement to reform the Immigration Regulations was announced, the Vox spokesperson in Congress, Pepa Millán, conveyed her party's intention to appeal before the Supreme Court the regularization.
In a press conference from the Lower House, Millán specified that in that appeal they would request the "immediate suspension" of the process. In this regard, the Vox deputy insisted that her party "opposes the invasion, the breakdown of identity and the collapse of public services".
Promises of repeal
For his part, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, promised in the first control session of the year in Congress to repeal the regularization upon reaching Moncloa.
The offensive of the populars has also reached the Upper House, where, availing themselves of their absolute majority, they introduced an amendment to the multi-offender law with the aim of preventing the regularization of migrants who have criminal records and thus hindering the process. However, upon its passage through Congress, the Government vetoed the Popular Group's amendment. Following this incident, the PP spokesperson in the Senate, Alicia García, announced a new conflict of powers between the Upper House and the Executive.
The gaze on the EU
The battle for regularization has also reached Brussels. The Popular Party moved to the European Commission the massive regularization of migrants so that it would determine if the measure contravenes European migratory policy agreements and if it can be applied generally or must be addressed individually, in accordance with the commitments assumed by the Member States.
For its part, in the European Parliament, the PP spokesperson, Dolors Montserrat registered an initiative considering the Government's proposal a "danger" for the whole of the European Union due to the "serious consequences" that, in her opinion, it will entail for the rest of the community partners, in addition to "the pull effect" and "the strengthening of human trafficking mafias".