The PP will present an amendment to the bill for the extraordinary regularization of foreign people in Spain to exclude those who "commit crimes, are repeat offenders or have an expulsion order" after Congress rejected the amendment to the entirety of Vox presented this Thursday with the "no" of all the other groups.
The PP deputy Sofía Acedo reported this during the debate on the amendment to the entirety presented by Vox to this bill, born from a popular legislative initiative and supported by more than 600,000 signatures, an amendment that received the vote in favor of the 33 deputies of the proposing group, 315 "noes" and no abstentions.
Vox's was the only amendment to the entirety that was presented to this bill, which proposes giving the Government six months to approve a royal decree with the procedure to regularize the administrative situation of foreigners who are in national territory, which would benefit approximately 500,000 migrants, according to its promoters.
The amendment of Santiago Abascal's party proposed to replace this initiative with another to, among other things, expel from the country all migrants in an irregular situation -and those who, even in a regular situation, have committed intentional crimes- and make people with Spanish nationality "not of origin" able to lose it when convicted with a sentence of four years or more.
During the debate, PSOE, Sumar, ERC, PNV, BNG and Podemos have frontally rejected this proposal amid accusations of xenophobia, racism, Islamophobia and promoting hate speech for Vox.
Sumar, ERC, BNG and Podemos have defended the original migrant regularization initiative, the PNV has recalled that its position is to reorient it towards a "case by case" regularization and the PSOE has not pronounced on the measure, although previously the group already announced that it would support taking it into consideration to amend it later, without clarifying in what sense.
For its part, the PP has said it is against both Vox's framework "of rejecting the immigrant for the simple fact of being one" and that of the PSOE "and the radical left" of "papers for everyone" and, on Vox's proposal, has criticized its "grandiose messages" and "broad brush" analysis.
After a heated defense of the European migration pact approved by the European Parliament last April and an intense criticism of the Government's migration policy, in his opinion "the maximum exponent of what should not be done", he has announced the amendment that his group will propose to the bill of extraordinary regularization of migrants.
"Foreign people in Spain have always been welcome to work and contribute to the socio-economic and cultural fabric of the country, but not those who have open legal cases, even for less serious crimes," he defended.
Therefore, he has indicated that the PP will present an amendment to the law so that people who "commit crimes, are repeat offenders or have an expulsion order" cannot benefit from this regularization process.
He has also announced that he will promote, through the modification of the long-term residents directive, the expulsion of those foreigners who, even in a regular situation, have been sentenced to prison terms; that the return files of immigrants be expedited and complied with and a reinforcement of the borders with more means for the security forces and bodies.
