VOX bill would tighten immigrant regularization and deportations

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1. The bill, introduced by the VOX parliamentary group, seeks to reverse the new immigration regulation, which the text says would allow the mass regularization of 300,000 migrants a year for three years by loosening the arraigoArraigo A Spanish legal status that lets an irregular migrant get residence by proving time in Spain and ties or integration. status.
2. The bill would require a clean criminal record to grant temporary residence, and any criminal record in the integration report would by itself and automatically lead to denial of the permit.
3. It would expand grounds for deportation: a foreigner convicted in Spain or abroad of a serious offense, a lesser offense, or three minor offenses could be deported. It would also extend the time limits for prosecuting infractions and enforcing sanctions, and allow a permanent entry ban for those posing a serious threat.
4. It would raise the maximum detention period in immigration detention centers to 180 days, and set up a fast-track deportation procedure with no voluntary departure period and immediate execution of the order.
5. It would limit appeals and asylum as brakes on deportation: if no express decision is issued in time, the execution of removal would not be suspended, and an asylum application would only pause the procedure for fifteen days.
6. It would amend the Criminal Code so that prison sentences imposed on foreigners are replaced by their deportation, with more grounds for deporting European Union citizens convicted of sexual offenses or terrorism.

Words worth knowing

Arraigo

A Spanish legal status that lets an irregular migrant get residence by proving time in Spain and ties or integration.

Centro de internamiento de extranjeros (CIE)

A detention center where foreigners are held while awaiting deportation.

Prescripción

Loss of the ability to prosecute an infraction or enforce a sanction because too much time has passed.

Salida voluntaria

A period given to a foreigner to leave Spain on their own before forced deportation.

Proposición de ley orgánica

A bill introduced in Congress to amend an organic law; it is not yet an approved law.

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