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Maybe they should have a look to what other countries are doing. [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/spain-decree-regularise-undocumented-mig

• garbawarb 8mo ago
  Heck, they could just make it easier for documented immigrants to live here.
  • actionfromafar 8mo ago
    There are other plans now: https://baptistnews.com/article/remember-the-first-goal-of-project-2025-is-to-create-a-baby-boom/ https://baptistnews.com/article/remember-the-first-goal-of-p...
    • mindslight 8mo ago
      The ever-advancing big tech dystopia where individuals are pervasively tracked, quantified, and siloed. A destroyed economy squashing mobility, making the basic necessities uncertain, and future wealth questionable. Terrorist gangs abducting people in their homes based on what AI says, and executing people in the streets for protesting about it. All things that make for warm fuzzy feelings about bringing children into this world! As a parent, I will say that the reelection of destructionists has basically guaranteed that my son's life will be markedly worse than my own. This was our chance to pull up out of the death spiral, but instead we chose full speed ahead, downward. The only sane way to analyze the fascist movement is as the death throes of our society, rather than latching on to any of their conflicting purportedly-constructive plans they chum out to fool the gullible.
    • idontwantthis 8mo ago
      Holy shit that article invokes explicit nazi policy without a shred of shame.
      • actionfromafar 8mo ago
        https://baptistnews.com/article/trump-admin-continues-to-lie-about-whos-being-arrested-by-ice/ https://baptistnews.com/article/trump-admin-continues-to-lie...
• dv_dt 8mo ago
  The interesting thing is this is Spain's second wave of doing this, and the economic studies on the first wave of it showed visibly positive results. Spain's economy moved in growth, and with a size larger than many other European nations in similar background conditions of flat to negative population growth, but tighter immigration allowances.
  • assaddayinh 8mo ago
    Spains youth is everywhere in europe but in spain? That economy sounds like a warzone from what they tell..
    • 9question1 8mo ago
      You're mentally stuck in 2009-2015. The world has moved on and Spain is now significantly outperforming Germany in growth (obviously not yet in wealth, which is the integral of growth over much longer time periods). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-YZeqk8NCQ&t=456s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-YZeqk8NCQ&t=456s
  • myrmidon 8mo ago
    I have no doubt that this has positive effects on the national economy as a whole (you get workers, on demand, without really paying for raising, educating, training them), but it is not really sustainable because population growth is low/negative pretty much everywhere, and it also leads to significant pushback from cultural friction and local workers (that dislike competition). You could argue that the whole rise of somwhat radical rightwing parties all over Europe is mainly the result of policies like this during the last half century...
    • dv_dt 8mo ago
      As I see it, the root of unhappiness in voters is nonperformant housing markets and unaddressed growth of inequality where wages are not sharing in growth of profits. This creates a raft of difficult issues. And the rightwing indeed has an effective playbook to exploit these unaddressed shortfalls while blaming immigration. And the center left parties seem unwilling or unable to address the root problems.
• throw1111221 8mo ago
  Meanwhile, in Denmark: Why have Danes turned against immigration? ... In October the finance ministry, in its annual report on the issue, estimated that in 2018 immigrants from non-Western countries and their descendants drained from public finances a net 31bn kroner ($4.9bn), some 1.4% of GDP. Immigrants from Western countries, by contrast, contributed a net 7bn kroner (see chart). Data on immigration’s fiscal effects were what “changed the Social Democrats’ point of view”, says Torben Tranaes of the Danish Centre for Social Science Research. Muslims are at the core of the issue. This year was the first time the ministry reported separately on the contributions by people from 24 Muslim countries. They account for 50% of the non-Westerners, but 77% of the drain. Alongside that worry are fears that Muslims bring notions about democracy and the role of women that Danes find threatening. Muslims are welcome, says Mr Tesfaye, but, “We can’t meet in the middle. It’s not half sharia and half the Danish constitution.” ... https://archive.is/kXMi7 https://archive.is/kXMi7