{"id":66472,"date":"2026-08-06T01:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/66472\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T01:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:15:54","slug":"ceuta-crisis-puts-spains-sanchez-under-fire-over-migration-policies-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/66472\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceuta crisis puts Spain\u2019s S\u00e1nchez under fire over migration policies \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a post<\/a> on X, the People\u2019s Party\u2019s secretary general, Miguel Tellado, said \u201cno one can be surprised that thousands of people want to enter a country that regularizes more than a million irregular immigrants overnight. Not only are we not stopping the avalanche, but we are sending the message that those who come soon will be able to become Spanish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Isabel D\u00edaz Ayuso<\/a>, the party\u2019s high-profile president of the Madrid region, accused<\/a> S\u00e1nchez of \u201callowing the invasion of Spain via Ceuta to try to cover up all of his trials,\u201d referring to the tangle of corruption cases<\/a> ensnaring the Socialist party.<\/p>\n

Spain\u2019s government hits back<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the foreign ministry retorted that the crisis in Ceuta had nothing to do with the government\u2019s migration policies and pointed out that none of the people who have illegally entered Ceuta will be eligible to benefit from its legal status scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis process is based on very specific conditions, such as proof of residency in Spain before January 1, 2026, and having resided in Spain for five consecutive months at the time of application,\u201d said the spokesperson. Moreover, the deadline<\/a> for filing applications for the scheme, which was launched in April, was in June.<\/p>\n

The S\u00e1nchez government has defended<\/a> the legalization scheme as a necessary measure to ensure the country\u2019s long-term economic growth amid declining birth rates, and the move was backed by unlikely allies like Spain\u2019s conservative employers\u2019 association and the Catholic Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the scheme is contentious domestically, with some polls showing over half of Spaniards believe the country already hosts too many foreigners<\/a>. It has also drawn criticism from figures like Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who challenged<\/a> S\u00e1nchez\u2019s policies during a meeting of European leaders last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a post on X, the People\u2019s Party\u2019s secretary general, Miguel Tellado, said \u201cno one can be surprised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6211,190,7579,25815,4446,826,203,2264,3949,205,3205,1996,17,209,210,7582],"class_list":["post-66472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-africa","tag-alberto-nunez-feijoo","tag-algeria","tag-antonio-tajani","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-immigration","tag-migration","tag-morocco","tag-natural-gas","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-santiago-abascal","tag-schengen-area","tag-spain","tag-spanish-politics","tag-trade","tag-western-sahara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}