Overcoming the resistance of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, the Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday the reform of the regulations of the immigration law to grant work and residence permits to ex-ward young people who, after being trained and welcomed by the administrations and oenegés They were left in an irregular situation when they turned 18, by imposing some impossible requirements to renew their residence permit and obtain a work permit. Draconian situation that led most of these young people to vital insecurity, the marginality, the underground economy, the trickery and in some occasions it pushed towards the delinquency. In addition, this horizon discouraged many to continue their educational and work itinerary, since they could not work in what they were trained for. Spanish immigration and immigration policy has on too many occasions been restrictive, placing migrants in situations of bureaucratic obstacles and irregularity, believing that this would slow the inflow. Restrictive policies have never slowed down the flows, they have only managed to work in the underground economy.
The reform of the regulation is about to be done so these young people could work, the Ministry of the Interior stopped its approval after the crisis in Ceuta in May, when Morocco pushed thousands of young people to arrive in Spain, with Marlaska’s team understanding that fill the legal vacuum in which these young people were left When you turn 18, it would generate a knock-on effect. But, as has been seen so many times in Spain, this police vision of “let’s make it difficult just in case & rdquor ;, far from stopping the flows only manages to lead migrants to irregularity. Irregularity that, in the case of unaccompanied young people, showed them when they reached their majority a vital way out through paths other than work and social integration. It took years to get that young foreigners reunited by their parents They could work like any other young person and avoid the absurdity that, having a residence permit, they would have to wait a few years to get a job. And asylum seekers who, due to the bureaucratic delay, also experienced similar situations, despite having submitted their application and in many cases being already welcomed by one of the NGOs that housed them and supervised their training, they did not receive a work permit. Asylum seekers can now work after six months your application is admitted for processing, admission for processing that is now more agile.
Although the voices that are raised, not only from the extreme right, demanding closed-door policies and mass expulsions as a magic solution to the problems of unemployment and insufficient resources to finance social, housing and health services, as we have seen with Brexit, immigration is absolutely necessary to maintain the productive system and care for our elders. The United Kingdom closed the door to the immigration of EU citizens, many returning to their countries and has also closed it to non-EU immigrants with valid work permits for the European Union. AND the consequence has been to run out of truck drivers and without personnel for many essential services, resulting in a shortage problem.
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Unaccompanied minors are perhaps the group most attacked in Spain by the extreme right of Vox, by holding them collectively responsible for insecurity and attributing much greater public spending than it really is. And the current situation so far of not letting them work and taking away their residence permit at age 18, somehow legitimized the arguments of the extreme right: We welcome them when they are minors because the Convention on the Rights of the Child obliges us, but we want them to leave when they turn 18 years old.
Beyond not being true the figures of its cost that Vox gave or the generic attribution of all types of crimes, Yes, it was true that it was nonsense to invest in training and reception so that they could integrate into a society that, upon reaching their majority, denied them to live assuming rights and obligations they had studied.
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