{"id":123,"date":"2007-08-16T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T15:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/?p=123"},"modified":"2013-08-27T06:07:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T05:07:39","slug":"spain%e2%80%99s-immigration-superiority-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2007\/08\/16\/spain%e2%80%99s-immigration-superiority-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s Immigration Superiority Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a title=\"melilla-immigrants.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/melilla-immigrants.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"melilla-immigrants.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/melilla-immigrants.jpg\" \/><\/a><span lang=\"EN-US\">Spanish Prime Minister Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero deserves a special award for transatlantic chutzpah. During his recent visit to Mexico, he ended the state dinner held in his honor by toasting Mexican President Felipe Calder\u00f3n with a sterling example of the post-modern pontification for which Spanish leftists are so famous: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavanguardia.es\/lv24h\/20070717\/53376070092.html\" target=\"_blank\">There is no wall that can obstruct the dream of a better life<\/a>,\u201d Zapatero proclaimed.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The \u201cwall\u201d that Zapatero is so worried about is, of course, the anti-illegal immigrant fence that, if everything goes as planned, will one day run along parts of the 2,000 mile (3,200 km) border between Mexico and the United States\u2026and not the twin razor wire-topped fences that separate the Spain\u2019s north African colonies of Ceuta and Melilla from those people in Morocco and the rest of Africa who have dreams of a better life in Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">It could be that Zapatero was just trying to divert attention away from <a href=\"http:\/\/hrw.org\/english\/docs\/2007\/07\/26\/spain16449.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a damning report by the New York-based Human Rights Watch<\/a> that accuses Spanish authorities of mistreating and neglecting hundreds of migrant African children at holding centers on the Canary Islands. Or perhaps he was still fuming that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, <a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/?p=66\" target=\"_blank\">during her recent six-hour stopover in Madrid<\/a>, did not extend the long-awaited invitation for Zapatero to visit the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Whatever the case may be, the fact is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/0,1518,410178,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">the United States and Europe are facing many of the same challenges on the issue of immigration<\/a>. But within Europe, few countries have a more troubled\u2014indeed contradictory\u2014approach to illegal immigration than does Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">By any measure, Spain is a magnet for immigration: During the past ten years, the number of immigrants in Spain has skyrocketed nine-fold to 4.5 million; immigrants now make up a whopping ten percent of the total population of Spain, a country that for much of the last century was an exporter rather than an importer of immigrants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Up until early 2005, half of all immigrants in Spain were undocumented, a problem that Zapatero decided to \u201cfix\u201d by granting <a href=\"http:\/\/spainreview.org\/?p=146\" target=\"_blank\">the largest blanket amnesty in Spanish history<\/a> to nearly one million of them. But while the politically correct prime minister regularly boasts that his \u201chumane\u201d approach to immigration has added a multitude of new contributors to Spain\u2019s financially unsustainable social security system, he has been less willing to acknowledge that his leniency has triggered an avalanche of uncontrolled immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In fact, official statistics confirm that today (just two years after Zapatero\u2019s amnesty) there are now more than one million new illegal immigrants in Spain. Many Spaniards are asking themselves how this could happen, but the answer is obvious. By rewarding illegal immigrants with Spanish (and thus European) documentation, Zapatero has unleashed what is known as the \u201ccall effect\u201d to people as far away as Kashmir who now believe that Spain is an easy gateway into Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And indeed it is. Because according to Spanish law, if an individual enters Spain legally on a three-month tourist visa, overstays that visa for 24 months, and then presents the immigration authorities with a labor contract, that person automatically becomes legal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Why is Spain so lenient? One reason is because Spaniards are getting rich on cheap immigrant labor. In fact, hundreds of thousands of low-paid immigrants are the fodder that fuels two of Spain\u2019s most important industries: agriculture and construction. And it is above all a construction boom that has transformed Spain into one Europe\u2019s fastest growing economies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Another reason is because at 0.7 children per woman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/research_briefs\/RB9126\/index1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spain has one of the lowest birthrates in the world<\/a>, and studies show that to keep the Spanish pension system from bankrupting, immigrants will have to make up 20 percent of Spain\u2019s population by 2030. Spain\u2019s demographic crisis is so troubling that Zapatero has just promised to pay a 2,500 euro ($3,400) \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/spainreview.org\/?p=153\" target=\"_blank\">baby bonus<\/a>\u201d for every newborn child as an incentive to boost the birthrate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Combine these factors with Zapatero\u2019s never-ending populist rhetoric about the need for \u201csolidarity\u201d with developing countries and it comes as no surprise that would-be immigrants in Africa and elsewhere perceive (correctly) that Spain is deliberately lax on illegal immigration. So masses of people who dream of a better life in Europe keep coming and coming\u2026by the hundreds day in and day out. Some 25,000 \u201ceconomic migrants\u201d have arrived in the Canary Islands so far this year alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But many of them do not arrive alive. The waters separating Spain from Africa are notoriously turbulent and the corpses of would-be migrants are washing up on the shores of Spain\u2019s prized tourist beaches almost daily. Up to 3,000 migrants are estimated to have drowned this year alone, a gruesome spectacle which, more than anything else, has created a public relations nightmare for the Spanish government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In the face of a public outcry over the government\u2019s inaction, Zapatero now senses the political need to appear tough on illegal immigration. But because Spain\u2019s immigration problem has spiraled completely out of control, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2006\/09\/29\/europe\/EU_GEN_Spain_EU_Immigration.php\" target=\"_blank\">Zapatero now says the problem is a European problem and as such he has tried to put the onus on other EU member states to find a solution<\/a>. He wants the EU to dedicate a substantial part of its 2007-2013 frontier control budget to the southern border, for example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But the EU\u2019s response has been tepid. Indeed, most EU countries believe that Zapatero started the crisis with his indulgent immigration policies and, as such, he should find the solution as well. In the words of French President Nicolas Zarkozy: \u201cWe see the damage caused by the phenomenon of massive regularization. Every country which has conducted an operation of massive regularization finds itself the next month [in a position that] does not allow it to master the situation anymore.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">This unfortunate reality provides some of the political context for Zapatero\u2019s concern with the US-Mexico border. The Spanish prime minister, who like so many other European leftists is religiously fixated on building a post-modern multicultural utopia, seems blinded to the fact that runaway immigration combined with socialist mismanagement has had disastrous consequences. Much easier, it would seem, for Zapatero to criticize America than to acknowledge his own shortcomings.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Meanwhile, more than a dozen would-be migrants have been killed and many more injured by rubber bullets or beatings in their bids to climb over the ten foot (three meter) fences around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. <\/span>Zapatero\u2019s response? <span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spainreview.org\/?p=128\" target=\"_blank\">He has just built a third perimeter fence to obstruct the dream of a better life in Spain<\/a>. Spanish leftists are consistent in one thing: they are nothing if not consistently inconsistent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Originally published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2007\/08\/spains_bluster_masks_an_immigr.html\" target=\"_blank\">The American Thinker<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span lang=\"EN-US\">Soeren Kern is Senior Analyst for Transatlantic Relations at the Madrid-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gees.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grupo de Estudios Estrat\u00e9gicos \/ Strategic Studies Group<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish Prime Minister Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero deserves a special award for transatlantic chutzpah. 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