Let me explain you something, Mr. Zapatero. The strategy of your government (our government, unfortunately) with regard the inmigration is, as the American uses to say a bullshit. Nothing. Air. The same that in the other Spanish problems.

You met today Mr. Berlusconi, yes, that person you blamed and insulted due to his attempt to fight the ilegal inmigration in Italy. Well… you or your government, or specifically the Vicepresident Mrs. De la Vega, who called the Berlusconi government “racist” and “xenofobic”. In yout meeting you insisted on your ideas on the inmigration and, worst, tried to teach Berlusconi how to manage this problem.

The thing is that your ideas about inmigration only are producing in Spain an increase of the ilegal inmigration, and the continuous profit of the mafias. Your last regularization process on 2.005 produced chaos, more ilegal inmigration (a year after, the number of ilegals on Spain were around 1,3 million people), an increase of the organized (and not organized) delinquency, and, also, the anger of the European Union with the Spanish government for their unilateral decission. The “effect of calling” produced by this regularization process was an increase of small boats that were arriving to the Canary Islands and other coastal parts of Spain. To not saturate the Canary Islands, Mr. Zapatero government sent, by air, the ilegal inmigrants to the Autonomic Comunities governed by the PP.  

Moreover, the “cooperation” with the governments of the countries of origin was nothing, a nonsense. Much of the repatriation was done in bad conditions for both inmigrants and, specially, the Spanish police that accompained them. And some of the countries accused Spanish government of mistreatment to the inmigrants, and suspended the process of inmigration. Together with Senegal, other countries did similar things. The problem? More money. What the countries of origin always want, when talking about cooperation, is asking for more money. For the country, and, in most cases, for the dictators themselves.

If there is not a firm position against ilegal inmigration, if the only position is talking about cooperation and negotiation, and talking again and again, the problem will happen again and again. Only having a position in which the force is a way, and the legality is respected not only in the own country but also in the European Union will allow Spain to fight well against the inmigration, the ilegal inmigration.

Allow me to explain you this, Mr. Zapatero, from my humility.

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