More than 22,000 migrants victims of the Dana have already been regularized by the Government | News from the Valencian Community

More than 22,000 people migrants who were victims of the Dana which ravaged the province of Valencia on October 29 have regularized their legal situation in Spain in the framework of An extraordinary processthe Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, reported Tuesday.

This Wednesday ends the deadline for submitting applications, not processing, Bernabé has pointed out, who has detailed that only a thousand of these requests have been denied.

« Here are two clear models. There is a government that protects, which gives certainty, security and stability to enrich society, which is the Government of Spain. And there is another model that is the PP and Vox model, which is the one we are living in this community, the model that stigmatizes migrants, » he said.

In this regard, he recalled that the President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazónasked the nationality of the people arrested for robberies and pillage after the Dana, « as an obligation that Vox imposed to approve the budgets. » « It is one of the most xenophobic phrases that I have been able to hear in recent times, a phrase that moves greatly away from concord, coexistence, respect and solidarity, » said Bernabé.

The extraordinary regularization measure was approved in a Council of Ministers last February as part of a package of measures with which the extensions and the granting of immigrants who lived or worked in devastated areas were also provided.

The calculations at that time was that the regularization benefit some 25,000 people, although the forecasts are that the measures will have a greater impact, potentially, it could facilitate procedures to more than 30,000 people from the 98,000 non -community foreigners already registered in the area.

Automatic extensions were already a tool that served as a mattress to foreigners in the pandemic, but finding referents of regularizations in case of catastrophe must be receded until 2004. A few hours after the 11-M terrorist massacre, in which almost 200 people died, President José María Aznar announced the regularization and granting of Spanish nationality by nature of nature to foreign victims and their relatives.

Victim associations, in Brussels

Asked about the meeting that Victims Associations of the DANA maintained this Tuesday with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, Bernabé has assured that « the Government of Spain has received them at the headquarters of the Government Delegation » and that he hopes that « they can have the support they have not had in the President of the Generalitat in the commission. »