EAPN welcomes the legislation Project, as it intends to include fundamental rights for all foreigners, solve pending issues such as political rights (right to vote and participate in the political life) and labour rights (work contracts and social security as a key to labour migration), and it extends the conditions of family reunification. However…
However, EAPN Spain points out that several topics should be discussed and solved at Parliament level, i.e. right to education, access to housing, family reunification, access to free justice, access to basic health and social services, immigrant detention (extended to 60 days), and the considerable stiffening of laws concerning undocumented people. EAPN highlights that the rights of anyone who contributed to society during the economic growth should not be questioned in these times of crisis. EAPN also calls on the Parliament to make sure that immigrants’ rights are neither undermined nor reduced. This is crucial, reminds EAPN, if we are to fight exclusion.
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