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Melgosa asks Sanchez for a structural plan to address the migration challenge against populism

The Chief Welfare Officer has warned of the danger of populist discourse unless a common, orderly integration strategy is pursued.

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The Minister for Welfare, Youth and Demographic Challenge of the Basque Government, Nerea Melgosa, has called on the Government of Pedro Sánchez to speak and "once and for all" promote a structural plan on migration, to provide a coordinated response to the phenomenon and to stop the rise of populist discourses against migration.

Interviewed on Radio Euskadi, Melgosa has stressed that in the Basque Country they are "far removed" from the approaches defended by the mayor of Badalona, Xavier García Albiol, who has justified the eviction of some 400 migrants in an irregular situation in an old municipal institute and has refused to offer municipal accommodation.

The Councillor has stressed that this has not been the case in the Basque Country in similar situations and has stressed the need to "order migration policy" and has urged the State to lead the talks in order to design a structural plan that gives stability and coherence to all actions.

According to Melgosa, it is the lack of a global strategy that causes the debates to be chained without a fundamental solution: "This is today, tomorrow, unaccompanied foreign minors, the day after tomorrow, temporary work permits and then asylum protection." He believes that if a joint response based on orderly and secure integration is not achieved, populist speeches will continue to gain ground on the streets.

In this regard, he has warned that if the institutions are unable to build a robust and responsible account of migration, "others will do it for us", referring to simplistic and exclusionary messages, and has warned that these may lead to greater social tension.

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