Posted on 06/20/2025 9:33:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Defying the anti-immigrant trend in the U.S., Spain is reaping economic benefits by granting citizenship to tens of thousands of newly-arrived workers.
MADRID — When night falls on the other side of the Atlantic, her 32-year-old cousin, a house cleaner in New York, huddles inside a dim basement apartment, terrified of ICE raids. But in a burgeoning quarter of the Spanish capital, where immigrant-staffed restaurants tempt newcomers with Dominican chicharrones and Venezuelan empanadas, Edith Chimbo sat in the sunlight, musing about the Spanish Dream.
“My cousin told me, ‘Go to Spain’” said Chimbo, 22, who landed in Madrid earlier this year from the Ecuadorian highlands. Armed with a college degree but no work permit, she’s cleaning houses under the table, just like her cousin in the United States. Yet she is counting on something in the weeks ahead that her kin almost certainly cannot: legalization.
“Here,” she said, “we have hope.”
As the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants and asylum seekers brings tear gas, protests and raids to the streets of the United States, Spain is positioning itself as a counterpoint: a new land of opportunity.
In this nation of 48 million with long colonial links to the New World, an influx of predominantly Latin American immigrants is helping fuel one of the fastest-growing economies in Europe. The Spanish economic transformation is unfolding as the center-left government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has streamlined immigration rules while offering legal status to roughly 700,000 irregular migrants since 2021.
A landmark bill now being negotiated in the Congress of Deputies could grant legal amnesty to hundreds of thousands more — most of them Spanish-speakers from predominantly Catholic countries in Latin America. Those newcomers often enjoy visa-free travel to Spain, even as Madrid controversially works with Morocco, Mauritania and other...
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Awesome, we have another place to deport illegal aliens!
The Moors back to take over?
Does it say what these 700,000 immigrants have to offer Spain? I doubt anything good.
What anti immigrant trend? Oh wait it’s the WAPo
Yeah, all those illegals are taking over European countries. The UK is almost all Muslim controlled and run.
Ferdinand and Isabella are rolling in their graves................
This article is a lie. Mass immigration is destroying Spain.
Re-reconquista?
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
Funny....Barcelona is chasing people away!!
I wonder how many are Muslims, and what ultimately will happen to the country.
I wonder how many are illegal and will live in 4 star hotel rooms and suck up local social services.
Let Spain have them all.
Meanwhile, our President.....
Spain is a great place for Latin Americans to go.
Its villages are depopulating and its birth rate is near zero.
They all speak the language because they’re descended from that country. Great. Now they’re home.
The problem of course is not the Latin American immigrants, its the millions of Muslims and other Africans who are flowing in freely. The government does nothing to stop them, it encourages them and incentivizes them.
The same thing is happening in every west European country. No one voted for it. No one wanted it. Their puppet governments have sold them out.
It’s Moops…
Spain committing suicide.
GET back to us in 20 years or so.
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