Posted on 12/17/2025 5:50:47 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
With most European leaders talking tougher about immigration amid a rise in far-right populism and Trump administration warnings that they could face “civilizational erasure” unless they tighten their borders, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez stands apart.
The Iberian nation has taken in millions of people from Latin America and Africa in recent years, and the leftist Sánchez regularly extols the financial and social benefits that immigrants who legally come to Spain bring to the eurozone’s fourth-largest economy.
Spain’s choice, Sánchez often says, is between “being an open and prosperous country or a closed and poor one.”
His words stand in stark contrast to other Western leaders, and so far, his bet seems to be paying off. Spain’s economy has grown faster than any other EU nation for a second year in a row, due in part to newcomers boosting its aging workforce.
“Today, Spain’s progress and strong economic situation owe much to the contribution of the migrants who have come to Spain to develop their life projects,” Sánchez said in July after anti-migrant clashes rocked a small southern Spanish town.
Europe’s shifting mood
Sánchez’s immigration approach, including his remarks about immigrants’ contributions to Spanish society, is consistent with those of the country’s past progressive governments, said Anna Terrón Cusi, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute think tank who previously worked on immigration policy for multiple Spanish governments, including Sánchez’s.
“What has changed a lot internally is that there is now very anti-immigration rhetoric from Vox, especially against Muslim immigrants,” she said, referring to the far-right Spanish party that has been polling third, behind the ruling Socialists and center-right People’s Party. “But Sánchez, unlike other European leaders, responds by directly and strongly confronting this narrative.”
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Let’s see how long this lasts.
Theater
Nothing is going to change. Except for the worse.
Then they’ll be begging the Americans to come save them—again!
Seems to me Spain let in the Muslims before, and had to fight them back eventually. See “Reconquista.”
Looks like they didn’t learn from that lesson.
Fools.
Sánchez is an idiot. If he thinks bringing in a lot of third-worlders, especially Africans, is going to make Spain richer, he is beyond help.
“Seems to me Spain let in the Muslims before, and had to fight them back eventually. See “Reconquista.””
Yep, took a few centuries.
Al-Andalus re-appearing on the horizon.
Gonna party like it’s 1491!
People from Latin America is understandable.
“Africans” are undoubtedly not of the Christian variety.
Who elected this retard?
And the body count.
“The Iberian nation has taken in millions of people from Latin America and Africa in recent years.” Notice how the AP quietly buries that fact that few of the immigrants are apparently from the Middle East, and may therefore have fewer issues with assimilation.
I guess they don’t remember what happen when the “Moops” came over...
The article doesn’t mention what type of welfare Spain offers it’s immigrants. I would bet it’s little to nothing, so the ones that do come to Spain, must find work or starve.
Not as generous as what they'll get in the UK so that makes it worth the risk to get on a dinghy across the channel.
I suppose after over 500 years the Spanish have developed short memories. If they survive, they will have to do it in another 800 years or so.
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