Podemos will bring a non-binding proposition to the Congress of Deputies next week urging the Government to approve «immediately,» within a maximum period of two months, the regularization of foreign individuals in irregular administrative situations who are in Spanish territory before November 2021.
This appears on the agenda of the upcoming Plenary Session accessed by Europa Press. The ‘purple’ party aims for the Lower House to vote on the blockage faced by the Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP) to regularize half a million foreign individuals.
«It is an ethical, political, and democratic obligation that would give our country great dignity in the eyes of the world, the regularization of all these individuals currently in irregular situations, as well as the opening of legal and safe pathways for those who wish to migrate from their countries without risking their lives in the process,» Podemos states in the proposition’s reasoning.
In this regard, the party laments that the debate on the arrival of migrants «is not focusing on the fundamental perspective in this matter: that of Human Rights, which are inherent to every individual, regardless of their administrative status.»
Podemos argues that the issue is being approached from a false perspective of security and public order, resulting in migrants being portrayed in the social imaginary as a potential threat to society and security. Furthermore, the debate is being distorted by misinformation campaigns and fake news spread daily on social media and some news outlets. «All of this is leading to the criminalization and dehumanization of migrants, which goes against the values of a democratic society,» the party emphasizes.
Moreover, Podemos accuses the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, of fueling a degrading perspective towards human beings with his statements and announcements. «During his recent tour of countries like Mauritania, Gambia, or Senegal, carried out in late August, President Sánchez hardened his discourse regarding irregular migration and advocated for the mass deportation of individuals in irregular administrative situations back to their countries of origin,» it explains.
According to Podemos, the Sánchez government is now aligning «politically and ideologically» with other European Union governments that have been engaging in practices contrary to Human Rights for some time.
In the same vein, Podemos references the ILP, originally signed by over 700,000 individuals, which proposes the regularization of individuals in irregular administrative situations living in Spain before November 2021.
«A regularization that, according to the calculations presented in the Law Proposition under consideration, currently affects a minimum of half a million individuals, and would serve to grant full citizenship rights to them, thereby ending the exploitation labor, invisibility to institutions, legal unprotectedness, or de facto exclusion from essential public services such as education and healthcare caused by their irregular situation, as well as providing significant economic and fiscal benefits to the Spanish state and its society,» the party recalls in the initiative.
The ‘morados’ also emphasize that it is not true that Spain is unprepared to carry out this regularization or to legally accommodate individuals who continue to arrive in Spain through various means, be it maritime, land, or air.
«The lack of safe and legal migration pathways results in thousands of deaths each year as individuals attempt to enter our country and other EU countries irregularly, a true massacre of human beings directly caused by the migration policies of our countries,» Podemos points out.
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