Spain's government calls for €10 volunteers to regularise a million migrants
Half a million files not yet uploaded, volunteers paid €10 each and queues of 80 people: the final day of Spain's regularisation drive overwhelms the government.
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Express regularisation: volunteers working overtime at €10 per case
At a neighbourhood municipal centre, eighty people were queueing to regularise their status. Meanwhile, the government was desperately seeking volunteers – beyond civil servants – to process applications outside working hours, at €10 per file. The measure, which the CSIF union denounces as evidence of disorganisation, comes to light on the very day the application deadline closes.
Half a million files in limbo
CSIF says half a million applications have yet to be uploaded to the data platform. The total volume would exceed one million people, according to the commentators' own estimates. The improvised outsourcing of the process raises legal doubts: can a non-civil servant handle sensitive data? The question hangs over the whole procedure.
The politics behind it
The rush has triggered political interpretations. While some see an electoral ploy – "€10 per vote", they sum up – others point to the welfare pressure on healthcare, housing and justice. What nobody disputes is that the administrative machinery has been overwhelmed.
The unsettling figure: at the last minute, half the files remain unprocessed. The regularisation circus, as one observer put it, has its best act in the last-minute scramble.
At a neighbourhood municipal centre, eighty people were queueing to regularise their status. Meanwhile, the government was desperately seeking volunteers – beyond civil servants – to process applications outside working hours, at €10 per file. The measure, which the CSIF union denounces as evidence of disorganisation, comes to light on the very day the application deadline closes.
Half a million files in limbo
CSIF says half a million applications have yet to be uploaded to the data platform. The total volume would exceed one million people, according to the commentators' own estimates. The improvised outsourcing of the process raises legal doubts: can a non-civil servant handle sensitive data? The question hangs over the whole procedure.
The politics behind it
The rush has triggered political interpretations. While some see an electoral ploy – "€10 per vote", they sum up – others point to the welfare pressure on healthcare, housing and justice. What nobody disputes is that the administrative machinery has been overwhelmed.
The unsettling figure: at the last minute, half the files remain unprocessed. The regularisation circus, as one observer put it, has its best act in the last-minute scramble.
Summary of a discussion on Burbuja.info - Foro de economía, actualidad y política., translated from Spanish and reviewed before publication. Read the full discussion (10 replies).
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