⚡🇪🇸 NEW - CNN: This moves residency toward a pathway to citizenship for people — nearly half a million people. This goes completely in the opposite direction of what everybody else is going. Why did you do it?
Spain’s Sanchez: Well, there is a moral angle to this debate. Spain has been, for many years, a country of migrants.
Our fathers and our grandparents went to other places precisely because we were suffering under a dictatorship or a lack of economic opportunities.
Now there is also a pragmatic angle. These people are contributing to the economic success of Spain.
By the way, they represent roughly 10 percent of our social security income, while they account for only 1 percent of total public spending.
