Ourense, May 30, 2023.- The subdelegate of the Government in Ourense, Emilio González, today appealed to the “action of the Government with the protection of the most vulnerable” highlighting as a country that “does not look the other way and that does not wash its hands in an issue as complex as migratory movements”.
Emilio González highlights that the latest reform of the Law on Foreigners “improves our migratory model and its procedures”. And he valued the “collaboration and cooperation without which it is impossible to walk”. “This government has always been up to the task, our country and, in particular, the province I represent are characterized by being a place of welcome with open arms, with protection and guarantees.” Therefore, “we act with an enormous “generosity, and empathy; but also with absolute rigor and responsibility exercised from a legal framework that is continually being renewed and improved to act with all the guarantees.”
Emilio González spoke in this way at the opening of the “Day of Foreigners and Employability” organized by the Government Subdelegation and which was attended by the Director General of Migration of the Ministry of Migration, Inclusion and Social Security, Santiago Yerga; the provincial director of the SEPE, Celso Fernández; the head of the work unit of the subdelegation, Mar Martínez and the head of foreigners, Josefina Rodríguez; and Gonzalo Sáez representative and lawyer of the NGO Arraianas.
“The objective of the reform of the regulation of foreigners is to improve the migratory model and favor the incorporation into the labor market of migrants with measures such as, for example, facilitating the stay and work of foreign students, updating the figures of social and labor roots or facilitating the entry of entrepreneurs,” as highlighted by the general director of migrations, Santiago Yerga.
In addition, Yerga has highlighted that “working with migrations means cooperating and collaborating in the management of diversity” and has shown that “the whole society should be enriched with the contributions of foreign people who hang around our country.” And has announced the creation of an “office of foreigners” in Vigo that will centralize and streamline the procedures of the whole of Galicia as announced last week by the Minister of Migration, Inclusion and Social Security, José Luis Escrivá.
The CEO explained that in the last three years there have been 2 reforms in the regulation of foreigners. The first one in November 2021 related to unaccompanied foreign minors and young ex-guardians who turn up to the age of majority whose results have been “excellent in the whole set” -18,000 boys and girls have seen their documentary situation normalized in Spain which has qualified as a “success against the noise that it meant”.
This activity has been carried out in the room of the cultural house ceded by the Cineclub Padre Feijóo, place where the old public library was housed and has been directed especially to the NGOs, representatives of the Ourense Bar Association and the Social Workers Association, as well as to the different multicultural groups rooted in the province and the social workers of all the municipalities.
Likewise, they have been characterized by being inclusive days with sign language interpreters to facilitate access to citizenship following the trail that maintains the excellence of the Subdelegation of the Ourense Government located at the service of all citizens.
Obtaining employment and authorizations
From the Government Subdelegation, M. Mar Martínez Pacheco and Josefina Rodríguez Durán, spoke about the main problems posed by the bureaucratic processes for obtaining employment of migrants or the need for a new population of working age in Spain together with the low birth rate of our country. They have also highlighted the requirements for regulating migration on the basis of solidarity principles.
Likewise, they have highlighted data on the new reform, such as the employment roots, the roots for training, the certificate of returned emigrant, residence permits, requirements, processing of files, obligations, etc.
Gonzalo Sáez, lawyer of the NGO Arraianas, explained the administrative framework and the progress that has been made in the field of foreigners in the last 23 since the adoption of the Law on Foreigners in 2000 and “the need to create new realities in which the focus is placed from the migrant perspective, preventing collectives and women from occupying precarious employment niches”.