Spain pays jobless immigrants

[SlowwHand]

Move comes as government grapples with downward-spiraling economy.

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.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26792948/

[germanos]

Sound plan

[Zkribbler]

[David Floyd]

Ummm, or, just deport them, pay them nothing, and give them the finger.

Yeah, I know, the EU says you can't do that. But still, all of those stupid poor people trying to benefit from the West Go home, *****es!

[rmsharpe]

I'd much rather have the government simply make a transfer payment to the other government and not have them in the country at all.

[SlowwHand]

Illegal aliens get away with murder, sometimes literally, in the USA; but paying them to leave? I guess it's still cheaper in the long run. Lady Bird Johnson would be happy that the trash is being swept out.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by David Floyd
Ummm, or, just deport them, pay them nothing, and give them the finger.

Yeah, I know, the EU says you can't do that. But still, all of those stupid poor people trying to benefit from the West Go home, *****es!

So much for libertarianism.

[SlowwHand]

They can have liberty where they came from, until they're legal residents somewhere else. What's your problem? You're documented to the max.

[Riesstiu IV]

Can't blame illegal immigrants for trying when people create tons of lucrative opportunities that enables them to make money. If you want to at least curb and perhaps reverse illegal immigration, then you need to make it impossible for them to earn a living by preventing their employment and actually punishing businesses that employ them.

If you make them second class citizens then there would be less incentive to cross the border.

[SlowwHand]

Exactly. Fine the company owners. Make it hurt.

[germanos]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Illegal aliens get away with murder, sometimes literally, in the USA; but paying them to leave? I guess it's still cheaper in the long run.

These are NOT illegal immigrants, it appears:

quote:
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.

Secondly:

quote:
The plan targets tens of thousands of non-EU citizens who have been laid off in Spain and are entitled to unemployment benefits.

So they do not exactly get a bonus for leaving, apart from the fact that they get a lumpsum instead of it being paid out over the period they would have been entitled too.

So comparing this policy with letting murderous illegal immigrants off the hook is a bit far fetched, Sloww.

[Colonâ„¢]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
If you make them second class citizens then there would be less incentive to cross the border.

If you'd make the US a poor country there'd also be less incentive to cross the border.

[Pekka]

I'm not sure why this would be a bad thing? It says jobless immigrants.

NOW, I assume that they are legal immigrants, and that they did have some sort of a job at some point at least because they were able to become immigrants in the first place. If they are simply touring around, I dont' think they count as jobless immigrants. Jobless immigrant in this case should mean an immigrant that once had a job.

I don't know, I'm just saying.

And in that case, I don't see what the big problem is. They contributed, I don't see why they couldn't be handed off a deal because they contributed. It's just that now it looks pretty bad, so we're going to save these opportunities for our own people, so we're sort of saying that it's a good time to leave and if you do, and help our economy and job market in a way, we'll remember that you contributed and here's a handshake for it. Come back when the situation looks better or try to find a job in the current market.

If that's the situation, Id ont' see what the problem is. Sounds fair to me.

[Kidlicious]

WTF?! They are giving them money to spend someone else? Why not just let them spend it in Spain to boost the economy?

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Illegal aliens get away with murder

So does Texas