As illegal immigration numbers decrease compared with what they were a year ago, the Spanish Congress of Deputies is going to debate on how to give them a boost by delivering residence permits to all illegal immigrants who arrived in Spain before Nov. 1, 2021.
Nearly 5.5 million foreigners, more than a third of them from Latin American countries, live in Spain, according to official data. This is out of a total population of 47.6 million people, and this does not take into account all those who are in Spain illegally or the increasing number of Spanish citizens with an immigration background.
In terms of having its own population replaced by non-European immigrants and their offspring, Spain is still lagging behind countries like France, Britain, Germany and Sweden, but it has been catching up fast of late.
But apparently not fast enough for Pedro Sánchez’s government, an administration made up of pro-immigration socialists, communists and other members of the far left prone to social engineering.
As illegal immigration numbers are down this year compared with what they were a year ago, the Spanish Congress of Deputies is going to debate on how to give them a boost by delivering residence permits to all illegal immigrants who arrived in Spain before Nov. 1, 2021. Such measures are known to encourage potential illegal migrants to try their luck in the hope that they, too, might someday get a residence permit.
Before Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez presided over a sharp rise in illegal immigration when he took office in 2018, the previous record for the number of illegal immigrants arriving in Spain was in 2006, with 39,180 illegals in just one year (compared to 11,781 the year before), just after the socialist government of José Luis Zapatero had proceeded with mass regularization of immigrants in an illegal situation.