Combating right-wing immigration policy

Gaspar Llamazares Trigo, secretary general of the Spanish Party Izquierda Unida (United Left), criticises in the daily El País the immigration policy of the Spanish government and the EU: "What use is it if a state gives immigrants the right to vote but throws their family members and countrymen into ethnic prisons with the blessing of fortress Europe. The latter is erecting great barriers and throwing the keys to its closed gates at the migrants. ... We do not accept this progressive populism, just as we have always condemned xenophobic populism. The deportation of eight million people ... remains an open issue. All democrats and left-wingers must act against directives like this and also against Sarkozy's Pact on Immigration and Asylum, Berlusconi's criminalisation of immigrants and ... the swing to the right of the Spanish government regarding immigration policy."

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