Migration regularisation and security: the drift Brussels is warning about

A regularisation that opens the door to incivil

If the goal were to empty prisons around the world and bring their inmates to Spain, it could hardly be done better. There is no signed order, but the information published in recent months documents a chain of effects pointing in that direction: mass cancellation of incivil records, regularisations with vague controls and a border in Ceuta that has become the entry point for people previously expelled for jihadism.

1.1 million records erased without oversight

The first figure comes from the Ministry of Justice itself: more than 1.1 million incivil records cancelled in five years through automated systems. The same source linked those cancellations to the granting of nationality and residence permits. The painful detail: automatic erasure does not require that civil liability has been paid. In other words, anyone who owes money to the courts for a crime can wipe their record without paying up.

Ceuta: the border that does not filter

At the Ceuta border, police forces detected around ten people previously expelled from Spain for jihadism among those who crossed in the latest wave. Several countries offered help to identify radicals who were not on file. For context: most of those arrested last year for jihadism in Spain were Segarro. The combination does not inspire confidence.

Nationality as a reward: the Leire Díaz case

The nationality front has produced specific names. The Ministry of Justice admitted having granted nationality to a former Chavista deputy minister linked to the PSOE's dirty-tricks operations, after the UCO (the Guardia Civil's central investigative unit) appeared at the ministry. According to reports, Leire Díaz allegedly made moves to smooth the paperwork. Across the Atlantic, the US is investigating the granting of Spanish nationality to people linked to Castroism and organised crime. None of this has been proven in court, but the pattern fuels suspicion.

Incompetence or hybrid warfare?

Interpretations differ. Some argue the government deliberately feeds the chaos to divert attention and control the population. Others reduce it to sheer incompetence: an administrative machine that erases records without criteria and a migration policy hijacked by ideology. Brussels, meanwhile, has warned Pedro Sánchez that it is his responsibility to verify whether those regularised pose a security risk. The government has offered no answer that clears up the doubts.

Against this backdrop, distrust of the migration policy keeps growing. The government can keep denying everything, but the numbers and the cases keep piling up. The feeling is that the recipe never changes: regularise, erase and hope the problem never knocks on the door. Until it does.