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Immigration to Spain increased significantly in the beginning of the 21st century. In 1998, immigrants accounted for 1.6% of the population, and by 2009, that number had risen to over 12%. Until 2014, the numbers were decreasing due to the economic crisis, but since 2015, immigration to Spain has increased again, [2] especially after 2021. [3]
The former vice president of the Italian council of ministers and leader of the far-right Lega Nord party, Matteo Salvini, applauded the action of the Spanish government on the border with Ceuta in a tweet that said in Italian: "Spain, with a leftist government, will send the army to the border to block the entry of illegal immigrants". [53]
As of January 2021, there are 2,480,373 South Americans in Spain (all bar 391 being Latin Americans) and 624,034 Central American or Caribbean people in Spain (all bar at most 60,505 being Latin Americans). [1] Flows of migration have been dependent on the economic conditions in their countries of birth and in Spain.
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed its first major piece of legislation of the new Congress, the Laken Riley Act, to mandate immigration officials detain illegal immigrants who ...
The bill would grant legal status to foreigners who arrived in Spain before November 1, 2021, including hundreds of thousands of immigrant Spanish parliament will consider a bill to grant ...
In some contexts the term illegal immigrants is shortened, often pejoratively, [14] to illegals. [15] [16] [17] Irregular migration is a related term that is sometimes used, e.g. by the International Organization for Migration; however, because of the word migration, this term describes a somewhat wider concept, including illegal emigration. [13]
Spain has seen a big rise in illegal immigration, but some say that the extra workers are needed.
There was an attempt to change this situation under a new health law introduced in September 2012, whereby immigrants or expatriates without proper residents permits were to be refused medical care. Illegal immigrants would only be entitled to free treatment within Spain's healthcare system in cases of emergency or a pregnancy or birth. [2]