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Spain 'needs four million immigrants' by 2020
 Spain will need at least 4 million more immigrants - between 16 and 64 by 2020, according to a study.
| Guess they can't throw them back into the ocean now, can they? |
| I think they'd be better off with 4 million Messicans or Peruvians or Guatamalans than with 4 million North Africans. |
| Perhaps we, Spain and Mexico could arrange a three-way trade ... |
The report, prepared by the regional government of Catalonia,looked ahead to the situation in 2020. It said the nation's relatively low birth rate was not sufficient to provide Spain with the workers it would need in the coming decades. [Oliver] said immigration was "unavoidable and necessary" because "if no one else enters, there will be a significant aging of the population," and, as a result, a lack of workers, so "if we do not have them here, they will come from outside".
In calculating the number of immigrants needed, researchers factored in annual workforce growth of 2-3 percent and gross domestic product growth of 3 percent annually. "Workplaces produce the call effect" since "we need immigrants," but if a large wave of immigrants arrives it could create a "worrisome clash, given the problems seen with integration in other European countries," Oliver said.
| Oh, it's just with certain immigrants, the ones who have different plans and don't intend to integrate. |
Last year, Spain's Socialist government extended amnesty to illegal immigrants, a move deemed overly generous by the opposition in Spain and some other European nations. Madrid provided work and residence papers to nearly 600,000 people, but more than 1.2 million foreigners continue to live illegally in the Iberian nation, according to a study conducted earlier this year by the Communist Comisiones Obreras, or CCOO, labor union.
The three-month amnesty process started February 2005, and some 700,000 foreigners applied to legalize their status in Spain, according to the Labour and Social Security Ministry. It said 573,270 people were given their papers, about 70 percent of them from Latin America. For months, Spain has been dealing with a wave of illegal immigration into the Canary Islands. Illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa bound for the European Union have increasingly opted for the sea route to the Canary Islands since Madrid tightened security last year around two Spanish enclaves in North Africa that were being used as a bridge into Europe.I'm no math major, but it seems to me that if everyone in Spain got busy tonight they could have a whole bunch of 13-year olds in 2020. From Instapundit in May:
The consequence of Europeans not having children is that their elaborate social welfare system and free healthcare are liable to collapse in a generation or two as a consequence of their birth rate being below replacement level. They obviously know where babies come from, but it's less clear they know where adults come from. |
| Children are a burden in a cradle-to-grave welfare state. They're expensive and they cut into careers. You can't self-actualize yourself when you're busy being a parent. Socialism has helped this along by trying to atomize people, cutting off all dependencies except the one on the State. Now it's about time for post-WW2 Europe to pay the piper. They can start making babies, or they can import a few ten million more people from all corners of the world and try and convince said immigrants to become good Y'urp-peons, or they can watch their world implode and be taken over by someone else. That's the genesis of Eurabia, and the present-day Euros are doing it to themselves. |
Posted by: lotp 2006-10-08 |
