The poisonous tiff

In his column of yesterday, Saturday, in The Country, Manuel Rivas was occupying of reborn debate on the immigration to the thread of some municipal decisions and of his use opportunist on the part of the PP. And it was qualifying it with an expression as brilliant as accurate: poisonous tiff.

It is poisonous, first of all, for the mere fact of being a tiff. Of be looking like tiff, of appearing and be using deliberately as such. And it is poisonous for his intentions in short and half term, for the nature of the arguments that in her manage and for his effects-clarísimamente poisonous - on the society.

For a moment we must not even fall down in the temptation of following the decoy. This is not a debate on the electoral roll. They all know that the electoral roll does not serve to legalize the situation of anybody, but simply to state his existence, to know that it is there. To turn the irregular one in invisible is not a solution for anything, and who try to do it know it. In fact, it is the flare with which one tries to stimulate much more dangerous bonfires.

We all do not fit it is the new war-cry with which one thinks about how to put in foot a speech openly xenophobic and to turn it into flammable material for his use in the political struggle. The first essay will be in the Catalan elections. The dress rehearsal, in the policewomen. And the gala premiere, in the personal details. We all do not fit it is a meanness and also a lie.

If the Spanish economy has grown spectacularly until the beginning of the crisis, it has been to a great degree thanks to the immigration. If many Spanish have his today guaranteed future pension, it is thanks to the contribution of the immigrants to the Social security. If the European countries have some possibility of overcoming the unstoppable phenomenon of the aging of his general population and of the fall of his active population, it will be thanks to the immigration. To point out how causers of our problems to those who objectively are solutions bearers for the simple fact of that they avenge of out it is a declaration of irrationality that turns into irresponsibility when the one who does it is a political leader.

Naturally, all these advantages of the immigration only it are as it is a question of a legal, regular and controlled immigration. The opposite, the illegal immigration and out of control, is destructive for all: for the proper immigrants and for the society who receives them them without having chance of integrating.

That's why, the only sensible politics in this matter is to encourage the legal immigration and to fight the illegal one. To control the entry flows and to integrate quickly to those who enter. Control and integration, there is no another recipe.

I joust the opposite of what did the PP in the government. They allowed to enter descontroladamente hundreds of thousands. And when they were inside, they refused to recognize his existence, denied all right to them; but they did not also have arrests to expel them without much ado. Instead of turning them into an active and positive force inside the society, they turned them into a bomb of generating watchmaker's of instability and of all kinds of low passions.

The Shoemaker's Government has managed to reduce at least of the half the entry of illegal immigrants in Spain. Between other things, doing an intelligent politics of collaboration with the fatherlands, thing that the PP did not even try.

And yes, we have regularized to many. Namely we have turned many potential social outsiders into citizens who pay taxes, they quote to the Social security, they fulfill the law, they work legally and live in legal houses. Namely that expire with his duties like citizens. And naturally, they exercise his rights: between others, of educating his children, receiving health care or using the public services that are for all.

Unlike what many people were afraid (and some of them perhaps were waiting), the economic crisis, which has turned the employment into a scarce good, it has not provoked a xenophobia explosion in our society. And the fact that many immigrants have fallen down in the unemployment it has not been translated, as they were auguring any, in a climb of crime and of lack of safety in the streets. That has a lot to do with the social policy and also with the politics – intelligent, prudent, civilized and patriotic one - of Shoemaker on the subject of immigration, and with his iron will to not allow to drag for the singings of siren of the demagogy.

In the future it will be recognized that one of the Shoemaker's big achievements as leader has been to cross the worst economic crisis and of employment without a social break having taken place. In a society as the Spaniard, so inclined to fracture for so many things, thing is not small.

It is not a question of registering or of registering, this is a mere excuse. We are speaking about one of our most valuable goods – although it is only for the great thing for that it has cost us conseguirlo-: the coexistence and the social cohesion. This is precisely what there put in danger those who feed this one and other poisonous tiffs. And yes, finally it will be necessary to choose.