inaccuracies

Submitted by la chica k trabaja con gentes sin papeles (United Kingdom), May 29, 2010 at 17:16

"Under a 2000 law, registering with the local census (the padrón municipal) permits access to health care and other services. An immigrant can be eligible for welfare services while existing below the radar of the enforcement authorities. The upside of such registration is that Spain may have a more accurate count of its immigrants than other countries. The downside is that it has rapidly mounting welfare dependency--300,000 immigrants now live off of social benefits. All told, the combination of easy admission and generous welfare has created what the newspapers call an efecto llamada."

... yes there is a padron municipal but NO WELFARE BENEFITS. They don't exist in Spain for anyone not even Spaniards. The only thing in Spain is limited unemployment benefits related to how much you have paid into the system as a LEGAL worker.

Likewise the comments about the amnesty. It was not announced in advance. To be elegible you had to prove that you were in Spain 2 years before the day it was announced......... ...

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