Posted on 01/27/2026 11:02:25 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Spain’s socialist-led coalition government has approved a decree it said would regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, rejecting the anti-migration policies and rhetoric prevalent across much of Europe.
The decree, expected to come into effect in April, will apply to hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and people in Spain with irregular status. To qualify for regularisation, applicants will have to prove they do not have a criminal record and had lived in Spain for at least five months – or had sought international protection – before 31 December 2025.
Announcing the decision after Tuesday’s weekly cabinet meeting, Elma Saiz, Spain’s minister for inclusion, social security and migration, said it was a “historic day”, adding the initiative was designed to “break the bureaucratic barriers of the past”.
Saiz said the programme, which is being brought in by royal decree meaning it does not require parliamentary approval, would benefit Spain as a whole. “We’re reinforcing a migratory model based on human rights, on integration and on coexistence that’s compatible with both economic growth and social cohesion,” she said.
The decree followed pressure from the socialists’ former allies in the leftwing Podemos party, which has a fraught relationship with the government.
“We reached a deal with the [socialist party] for the extraordinary regularisation of undocumented people,” Podemos’s leader, Ione Belarra, wrote on social media on Tuesday morning. “No one else has to work without rights … Today and always, yes we can!”
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What alternate universe is The Guardian living in?
Goody
Now we can send them the 50M “hispanic” invader force that barged the gates here for the last 50 years.
They won’t have a language problem. They may even have relatives there. And Spain won’t have to “regularize” any Muslims looking to resurrect Al Andalus.
The start of the reconquest of Spain by Muslims.
No long it takes, Islam will take back the countries it has lost. In this case with the support of those to be conquered.
Illegal aliens is the proper term, at least in the U.S.
Dumb move. Handing it over to the hoards who think they own it already by an ancient conquest.
Just send them our illegal Mexicans. Being called Spaniards would be a step up for them.
In tomorrow’s news, Spain’s government has passed a measure to rename their country to ‘Al-Andalus’
They may not get an El Cid but they may get something else soon...I’m thinking more Franco.
The Socialists in Spain think Spain still has too many Spaniards, not enough “diversity” yet. The Socialists hate when “national identity” interferes with the “universalist” mindset of socialism.
Sounds like Spain has decided to return their nation to Muslim control.
Expect a flood of “undocumented” coming to Spain.
“I’m thinking more Franco.”
I guess the question is whether Spain has reached the tipping point where a significant segment of the population is tired of the crap and ready to push back. England is getting close to that point, I think.
Another country bring sold out
Anyone who wants to live in an African s hole should just move to an African s hole. Stop importing these feral beasts.
Their funeral.
Agreed.
Well said.
“Si, se puede!”
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