Pedro Sánchez wrote an article titled: "I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants."
Sánchez says undocumented migrants already sustain key parts of society, so his government will regularize up to 500,000 people both out of moral duty and economic need. With aging populations, he argues migrants are essential to keeping economies and public services afloat, and that the real challenges come from poverty and inequality, not migrants themselves.
@juni1899 how is NOT legalising them (they are not naturalised yet) better. They are already there, many might be already working illegaly.
Limiting workforce supply to tackle unemployment is dumb - it will only harm the economy and lead to positions being closed or relocated
@Oytis "Limiting workforce supply to tackle unemployment is dumb - it will only harm the economy and lead to positions being closed or relocated"
a very nice frame to say "if you won't do it for lower wages, we just give the jobs to the unskilled workers we just legalised en masse" - once again, big corp got their way, either way.
@juni1899 @Oytis THAT is precisely it .
Sanchez's PSOE is neither pro-workers nor left wing.
The problem is that the right are mainly fascists (people who miss Franco very much) so he looks to the left of that, but he's center and pro companies, screwing the work force left and right.
If his political rivals weren't as horribly bad as they are he would never have gotten here.
But Spanish politicians are all very, very, bad.
@juni1899 @Oytis You have no idea how many people I know that refuse to even vote. Even though we have more than 10 political parties here in Spain.
I try to make them understand that politics is like taking a bus, you get on the one that goes closer to where you want to go, and if it changes paths, you get down and take another.
I almost always end with the sentence 'well, if you don't use your right to vote, you lose the right to even complain, so stfu'.
@Johns_priv @Oytis voting became a performative ritual to make ppl believe they have "it in their hands". nothing ever changes with this system, it defends itself from change and works by divide and conquer.
western democracy is a scam.
@juni1899 @Oytis That might be where you are from, it was quite different here in Catalonia/ Spain.
For starters, both Basque and Catalan parties are big enough to influence Spanish politics.
We also have 5 or 6 smaller political parties completely independent from the big two, which made for some real politik when I was growing up.
Nowadays though, since Russia and the pedo billionaires have been pushing fascism, all real politics are having a tough time.
@juni1899 Rather, if you let people in, economy will feel better, and more well-paid positions will be created. You will have more competition for these positions, but otherwise they will not be there at all.
There are countries that manage to only have high cost labour, but those either have oil like Norway or have attracted enormous amount of capital like Switzerland
@Oytis i'm hearing this for 20 years now, immigration was never "worse" than it is right now and yet the economy goes to shit.
maybe you should start to ask the right questions instead of defending the very ppl who rob as all and drain whole continents of it's able bodied populace so your starbucks can get delivered for next to no salary.
@Oytis no one's talking about skilled immigrants from eastern europe who obviously want to blend in and integrate. "you" are not the problem.
a turkish friend of my family came here in the 1980's and is now the most right wing person you can imagine. asking her why, she says that she didn't leave her home country to now have the very ppl around her she left in the first place.
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