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Let there be a public debate on immigration is not bad news, much less whether what moves us in this debate is the concern about the possible degradation of the model of coexistence. But what must be avoided is clearly seem easy and quick solutions to a problem as complex as the management of immigration. Among other issues because, placed the debate at this point, the game always win those who do not care about damage or democratic principles, much less respect for the rights of individuals. We would do well to avoid prescription socially frowned solutions, easy to use, but social and political consequences unpredictable.
From this perspective, the only thing that can hold the government of Vic is the inappropriateness of his proposals for the problems he says he wants to solve. The limitation of voter registration can be perfectly adjusted to the law, the report says Roca, but neither will improve the living nor will it improve social cohesion nor will enable municipalities better refine their public policy management of immigration. Knows that any mayor and councilman of our municipalities. Another very different question is whether we believe that behind Vic’s proposal is the desire to express an upset today about the circumstances that determine the management policies of immigration. In this regard, three factors relevant to public debate.
The first has to do with the enormous gap between the competencies and the resources available to local governments on the one hand, and the nature and timing of policy responses that must be taken from the municipal level to ensure social cohesion and together, for another. Not just a matter of lack of budgetary resources, also lack of skills is to structure appropriate responses. Neither local government nor the autonomic-incidentally, there is scope for immigration policies. Municipalities and autonomous regions have only been able to develop social policies, which is like having a team of fire-and above-water constraints, but without the capacity to develop prevention to prevent fires.
The second has to do with the lightness and inefficiency with which the central government has managed migration policies. On the one hand, the inability to control-predictable-border flows and, secondly, the political will to tighten the residence and work permits to those who wanted to come and those already in the country. It has confused the opportunity to have a fully regularized immigrants in fear of causing what has been termed pull effect. It has ignored the real attraction for the arrival of immigrant labor market was insatiable, and the proof is that now that job is finished you can see how the new immigrants stop coming. European governments pressured the Spanish government not to regularize the entire immigrant population living and working in Spain to avoid may have full mobility within the EU. No one felt, however, the human and social costs of having so many thousands of workers in the informal economy and many people in administrative and legal limbo. Today we pay the consequences. What is clear is that, with or without papers, the immigrants worked and what did it because someone gave them work. The Spanish Government, the current and previous, which showed no residence permits was not able to eliminate the occupation in the economy. The result of strict legislation and inefficient management was the generalization of the undocumented, which upon loss of employment opportunities has led to extreme social instability in many of our locations.
The third factor we must relate the increased competition among the popular sectors to gain access to scarce social resources. This scenario increases the perception among citizens that is given favorable treatment to immigrants at the expense of indigenous peoples. It matters little that is true or not. The social perception commands, and the fear of electoral bill passes the democratic parties is very present, and more in locations where there is already populist agitators as a Platform for Catalonia.
All these are factors that can explain better why the proposal for Vic but not warranted. If the government wants to emphasize the inconsistencies Vic Spanish government and current legislation on this issue should not be loaded against the weak. Denial of registration in the registry will not end with the undocumented, at best make them statistically invisible. It is not enough that the action is not contrary to law, much less to be electorally profitable. It must be useful to improve living conditions in the municipality. And that is far from the proposed measure.