Lurker.. Wrote:
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> Spain is thinking about paying legal immigrants to
> leave
>
> Spain will pay unemployed migrant workers to
> leave
> The incentive program marks a shift in Spain's
> lenient immigration policies.
> By Lisa Abend and Geoff Pingree
> from the June 20, 2008 edition
>
> Correspondent Geoff Pingree talks about Spain's
> plan to pay immigrant workers to go home.Europe
> ratchets up its pressure on immigrants
> The E.U. voted to allow longer detentions for
> illegals and to standardize deportation rules.
> Read more...
> Madrid - Just a year ago, the Spanish government
> was contracting workers in countries like Ecuador
> and Morocco to fill jobs in its booming economy.
> Now it has adopted a new measure designed to
> entice those same immigrants to go home. As Spain
> suffers from the world economic crisis, it is
> losing more and more jobs, and the new proposal
> seeks to offer unemployment compensation to
> out-of-work migrants who leave.
>
>
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0620/p12s01-woeu.htm
> l
Well...at least they seem to have a humane approach to their immigration issue in this instance. Thats more then I can say about the feeling here that we should round all of them up and send them back!