The initiative launched by the PP and Vox seeks to relate the risks of terrorism within Spain to the high flow of illegal immigrants in the country.
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The joint National Security Committee of the Spanish Parliament approved an initiative promoted by the Popular Party (PP) and Vox that seeks to analyze the possible relationship between processes of mass regularization of immigrants and risks in terms of terrorism.
The proposal went ahead with 20votesinfavor and 9against, in a context of strong political debate about the government's immigration policy.
The approved document requests that the Courts study the impact of the Executive's plan led by the communist PedroSánchez, which plans to regularize more than 500,000 people in an irregular situation. The initiative focuses on the implications of this process in terms of security, especially in the current international context marked by conflicts in different regions
. Current Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez According to the drivers of the measure, large scale regularization could generate effects that must be evaluated from the perspective of national security.
In this regard, reference is made to frameworks such as the National Counter-Terrorism Strategy, pointing out the need to analyze possible risks associated with migratory movements without sufficient controls
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The Government's project envisages the establishment of specific administrative mechanisms to process regularization, including dedicated offices and expedited procedures for managing applications for residence and work. This process could reach hundreds of thousands of people, in one of the largest programs of its kind in Spain in recent years.
During the parliamentary debate, the parties that supported the proposal defended the importance of anticipating scenarios and strengthening preventive security analysis. In contrast, leftist sectors such as the PSOE, ERC and EH Bildu voted against it, questioning the initiative and calling
it alarmist. Interior of the Spanish Parliament
The leftist government maintains that regularization seeks to recognize rights and order the administrative situation of those who already reside in the
country.
The opposition insists on the need to evaluate their possible side effects, including the so-called “call effect”, a concept used in previous debates about similar policies.
The commission's result opens the door to a deeper institutional analysis of the relationship between immigration, regularization and security. The debate will continue in the Courts, in a scenario where migration policy is consolidated as one of the central axes of the public agenda in Spain
