As Trump shuts out migrants, Spain opens its doors and fuels economic growth

[norsurin]

Take a beer at a beach or a sig and get fined 3000 €.Thats Spain.

[frank83628]

On 6/23/2025 at 9:39 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Defying the anti-immigrant trend in the U.S., Spain is reaping economic benefits by granting citizenship to tens of thousands of newly-arrived workers

 

June 22, 2025

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"As the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants and asylum seekers brings tear gas, protests and raids to the streets of the United States, Spain is positioning itself as a counterpoint: a new land of opportunity.

 

In this nation of 48 million with long colonial links to the New World, an influx of predominantly Latin American immigrants is helping fuel one of the fastest-growing economies in Europe. The Spanish economic transformation is unfolding as the center-left government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has streamlined immigration rules while offering legal status to roughly 700,000 irregular migrants since 2021."

 

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700,000 in 4 years, not 11 million, and legal, not illegal, massive difference

[tai4de2]

On 6/23/2025 at 8:45 PM, Digitalbanana said:

Watching families and screaming kids being torn apart in real time is not what makes this country great. Nobody, not even the most diehard conservatives, voted for these optics.

Wrong. I voted for this. A lot of us did.

 

Round up and deport all illegals. Families are welcome to accompany their illegal members back to wherever they came from. That's not our problem, it's a problem entirely of the illegals' own making. Leftists' attempts at emotional blackmail don't work any more.

 

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Imagine a poor, single mother from Central America who wants a chance to save her kids from gang violence but has zero chance of US citizenship.

And? The USA does not owe a single person on the planet citizenship. Too bad. Not our problem.

[frank83628]

On 6/23/2025 at 9:50 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Be mindful of the outcome for the U.S. of what you're advocating:

 

As the above report recounts regarding Spain's opposite approach:

 

"No policy has been as transformative to Spanish society as the stance on immigration, which officials and economists say is helping to reverse population decline and boost social welfare funding at a moment when baby boomers are retiring.

 

Immigration is also helping drive the strongest period of economic growth since Spain’s construction boom in the mid-2000s. Between 2022 and 2024, average GDP per capita increased 2.9 percent — the strongest of the E.U.’s four largest economies."

 

https://archive.ph/4FJMP

 

What you keep purposely omitting from your comments is 'legal or illegal', you are being purposely dishonest 

[Yellowtail]

5 hours ago, tai4de2 said:

Wrong. I voted for this. A lot of us did.

 

Round up and deport all illegals. Families are welcome to accompany their illegal members back to wherever they came from. That's not our problem, it's a problem entirely of the illegals' own making. Leftists' attempts at emotional blackmail don't work any more.

 

And? The USA does not owe a single person on the planet citizenship. Too bad. Not our problem.

And the only footage the lying leftist media (double redundant) will be of crying mothers and kids, There will not be any footage on CNN or MSNBC of gang members being rounded up or the destruction they do. 

[candide]

6 hours ago, frank83628 said:

700,000 in 4 years, not 11 million, and legal, not illegal, massive difference

Most of them enter legally as they don't need an visa, and then work illegally (until there's a regularisation campaign decided by the government). 

 

Considering that the population of the U.S. is 7 times higher than Spain, and also that the 700,000 number is only the number of immigrants which have been regularised (not those who haven't been yet), the percentage is not so far from the U.S. with 8 million.