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.
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