The PSOE accepts the offer of bishops to meet and treat the regularization of immigrants | Spain

The Socialist Parliamentary Group has accepted the offer of Spanish bishops to maintain a meeting to “value” the popular legislative initiative (ILP) on the regularization of immigrants. « We would be happy to see us, if possible, on June 10, at 6:00 p.m., in the Congress of Deputies, » says a letter dated Monday and signed by Montserrat Mínguez, general secretary of the Socialist Group. The letter arrives almost two months after the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE), Archbishop Luis Argüello, Send a letter to the majority groups of the Congress to intermediate between them and reach an agreement that promotes the approval of the regularization of more than half a million immigrants. « It is also a call to overcome sterile polarizations and address the serious common problems from legitimate differences, but looking for meeting points. We want to promote a social alliance that brings hope to those who are excluded from regularization and live in a land of anyone who does not propitiate anything good. We are willing to offer a channel that facilitates the encounter and dialogue, » Argüello said during the inaugural discourse of the plenary of the plenary of the plenary of the plenary of the plenary of the plenary of the plenary

When the leader of the bishops claimed the PSOE and the PP to boost the IPL – which are proposals for legislative change promoted by at least 500,000 citizens – both the socialists and the popular had settled in the NO. The PP because it maintained a speech closer to Vox and contrary to this type of initiatives, and the PSOE because it was shielded that at that time they were in full reform of the Foreigners Regulation.

Now, after changing the regulations of the Regulation, The PSOE is committed to getting forward the ILP, In part to correct the holes that the reform has left and that can push thousands of people to irregularity, as already warned of numerous entities that would happen, among them, the Spanish Episcopal Conference.

Thus said Argüello in March: « Those who do not meet the two -year requirement or people who cannot reliably demonstrate their stay during that period; undocumented persons without the possibility of receiving documents from their country of origin; people with difficult employability by age, disability or chronic disease; those who, being able to work, cannot accept a job proposal for not being ‘regularized’ or can be ‘regularized. of international protection, to whom their application is denied; and families with children and adolescents who are in a situation of administrative irregularity ”.

The Spanish Church was one of the great promoters of the ILP, promoted by hundreds of organizations. Under the ecclesiastical umbrella were Caritas, the EEC and the confer, the latter is the collegiate entity that brings together the more than 300 orders and religious congregations of Spain. The project collected almost 612,000 firms validated by the Electoral Census Office. The initiative was paralyzed in November after the modification of the Regulation of the Foreigner Law and is now waiting to be voted. But, for the moment, both Junts and the PP – although they voted in favor of their taking into consideration in 2024 – have advanced that they will not support it. The PP, which also received a letter from the Spanish Episcopal Conference, has refused to respond to this newspaper why he has not answered the bishops.

An agreement between PSOE and PP would be « a democratic regeneration exercise, » said Argüello since the ILP Argüello registration. The Archbishop has recalled on several occasions that the CEE recognizes « the right of the state of regulating migratory flows » – in collaboration with the countries of origin and fighting the mafias  » -, but always defending human dignity. » Given the situation of these thousands of people, especially children, sick, workers, what to do, expel them all or address how to regularize their situation?  »