Thread: Spanish minister backtracks on migrant visa plan

Sep 6, 2008

Spanish minister backtracks on migrant visa plan

MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Spain's labor minister has backtracked from a much criticized proposal to drastically slash the number of work visas available to migrant workers.

Labor Minister Celestino Corbacho had said it did not make sense to keep recruiting foreign workers when Spain has 2.5 million people unemployed. On Wednesday, Corbacho said the visas "will get close to zero," drawing criticism from unions, immigrant groups and opposition parties.

He reversed his position late Friday, saying "I must have said something wrong," adding that he didn't mean to say that he would severely cut back on the number of work visas to migrant workers

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What a wuss!!!
According to the CIA Factbook, the current population of Spain is 40.5 million, and 2.5 million unemployed is over 6% of the population.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/sp.html
Talk about flip-flopping. Well that is just something it seems politicos have in their genes.

He was either bought off or told what would happen bodily to him and his family, iF he did it.. so he "changed his mind.