Thread: Spain to pay jobless (LEGAL) immigrants to go home

Spain to pay jobless immigrants to go home

MADRID, Spain (AP) — Spain will pay jobless immigrants to go back home under a decree approved Friday, more dramatic evidence of how a once-booming economy has gone bust.
Labor Minister Celestino Corbacho says the measure was approved at a Cabinet meeting under a fast-track procedure and will take effect in about a month.

The plan approved Friday applies to non-EU citizens who have been laid off in Spain and are entitled to joblessness benefits. It offers them a lump sum payment of 40% of that money once they renounce their work and residency permits, and the remaining 60% once they get home.
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When they had the chance for illegals to self deport, some were posting they wanted to be paid to do it like Spain is doing......you know, an incentive. LOL

Failed Asylum Seekers Paid To Leave UK: International Organisation for Migration (IOM London)

by liamssoft | December 16, 2007 at 08:41 pm | 219 views | add comment

UPDATE December 16, 2007: Following on from last weeks news story concerning the cost of keeping failed asylum seekers in British jails, holding cells or sub-standard accommodation (see video), we now learn that…Thousands of failed asylum seekers have been flown out of Britain and set up in business back home in a £36 million taxpayer-funded scheme.

The unwanted foreigners, who had no legal right to remain, were given free flights, handed £1,000 in cash at the airport, then paid a further £3,000 to start enterprises in their homelands.

More than 23,000 migrants have taken advantage of the scheme. Their UK-funded businesses range from market stalls to hotels and clothes factories, in countries as far-flung as South Africa, China and Colombia.

Ministers say that paying failed asylum seekers to leave is cheaper than forcibly deporting them, saving money for taxpayers. However, the Tories last night condemned the payouts as "bribes".

David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said: "Now the price of the Government's failure to secure our borders is all too clear. Given their inability to deport illegal immigrants, they have had to resort to bribing them to leave - with the taxpayer picking up the bill."

Details of the scheme are shown in documents from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM London), the Geneva-based agency that administers the voluntary repatriation scheme on Britain's behalf.….[/q].

December 5, 2007

The cost of locking up foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers would be greatly reduced if the Government paid for their airfare back to their home country. This latest story shows a good example of how to waste millions of pounds without getting any worthwhile results. Locking up foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers who should have been deported costs £43,435 a year for each one – making it cheaper to send them on a luxury world cruise.

The bill for holding the 2,550 foreign nationals in immigration centres while they fight their removal is £110million.

The taxpayer would save £9,125 a year for each of them if they were sent on a 21-country cruise on the P&O liner Oriana.

The £119-a-day cost of holding a detainee emerged in a written reply to Tory MP Damian Green. It compares to £90 for a prison cell or £97 a day to sail around the world on the Oriana.[/q]Chaos belies the immigration system "] Removal centres cost so much to run because they must follow rules to protect the 'dignity' of failed asylum seekers.

But the network of centres is increasingly used to house foreign criminals who have been freed but are fighting removal.

The centres must provide the detainees with activities and TVs and healthcare provision should be 'at least' NHS standard. Some are also often visited by dentists.

Immigration spokesman Mr Damian Green said: 'This is one more price we pay for the chaos and delays in the immigration system.

Thousands of people locked up for months in detention centres, including foreign prisoners the Government can't deport, are costing the taxpayer more than £100million...............[/q]New jails. Justice Secretary Jack Straw said he had secured an extra £1.2 billion for a building programme which will see the number of prison places in England and Wales increase to 96,000 by 2014.

One of the new prisons - dubbed "Titan" jails by Mr Straw, and 1,000 beds larger than Britain's current largest - will be in service by 2012, with a further two expected to be built by 2014.

The plan was announced as part of a major review of the prison system, which is struggling with record levels and severe overcrowding.

Author of the programme - Government trouble-shooter Lord Carter of Coles - recommended ministers should use an existing process to force through planning permission for the Titan jails as quickly as possible............[/q]
Home Office statement. Home Office Liam Byrne said: 'We will not hesitate to detain illegal immigrants as part of our work to remove them from Britain.

To keep the public safe we will invest in the level of security that is right. This simply doesn't come free.'

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith will announce today that skilled migrants must obtain a certificate in English from next year before they can enter Britain.............[/q]

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Spain to pay jobless immigrants to go home
Move comes as government grapples with downward-spiraling economy


Would-be immigrants stand in line after arriving at the port of Los Cristianos on Spain's Canary island of Tenerife on Thursday.

MADRID, Spain - Spain will pay jobless immigrants to go home under a decree approved Friday, more dramatic evidence of how a once-booming economy has quickly gone bust.

Labor Minister Celestino Corbacho said the measure was approved at a Cabinet meeting under a fast-track procedure and will take effect in about a month after a largely symbolic passage through Parliament.

The plan targets tens of thousands of non-EU citizens who have been laid off in Spain and are entitled to unemployment benefits. It offers them a lump sum payment of 40 percent of that money once they renounce their work and residency permits, and the remaining 60 percent once they get home.

The program is strictly voluntary, and applies to people from 19 non-EU countries with which Spain has signed bilateral accords under which social security benefits accrued in one nation can be paid out in the other.

People who sign up for it must agree not to come back to Spain for three years, with the promise they will be able to recover their work and residency permits after that.

Country flirting with recession
The initiative is the latest thrust by a government grappling with ever-swelling jobless ranks in an economy that had posted more than a decade of solid growth but is now flirting with recession. Spanish unemployment is now an EU-high of 10.7 percent, according to the bloc's statistical agency Eurostat.

The meltdown stems mainly from a collapse in the construction industry, the main engine of all the growth and a key source of employment for low-skill workers from Latin America, North Africa and eastern Europe.

These immigrants are taking a particularly big hit as building companies lay off workers, and they are the ones the government now wants to pay to go home and stay there until things get better in Spain.

"We are trying to facilitate the return of those workers who, having contributed to the growth of this country, decide to go back to their own," Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega told a news conference after the Cabinet meeting.

Corbacho gave no figures Friday but the government said in July it believed some 10,000 jobless non-EU citizens — out of a total of 165,000 recorded as of that month — would go along with the plan.
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Spain's payment policy is the dumbest thing I have heard yet. I break a law, admit I broke it and get paid. Why work and waste all that time? I would live the good life and hope to get deported. Then I would turn around and do it again.

Spain is a prime example of a country who's ability to enforce its immigration laws has been castrated by political correctness!

Instead, they have to resort to paying illegal invaders to leave the country!

Did they say pretty please too?

Wise of Libya, but all these immigrants will be heading to Spain to get paid for being there illegally and leaving. Good for Libya and bad for Spain.