This article was written by Hermann Tertsch and appeared in El Debate. Mohammed VI regaña a su siervo.
From the Spanish government, the only thing His Majesty’s regime has received is doglike submission and collaboration in an invasion of Spanish territory.
King Mohammed VI has lashed out at Spain’s immigration laws, which he considers riddled with “obsolete legal provisions and unrealistic court rulings.” Allowing that the court rulings stem precisely from the laws, one has to admit that the monarch is very much right on this. Then, when he says he will not accept “pressure, threats or blackmail,” he gets rather grand. Because the truth is that the only thing His Majesty’s regime has received from the government of Spain is doglike submission and collaboration in an invasion of Spanish territory.
It has not even received a mild official reproach for unleashing a hundred thousand subjects on us and leaving us twenty thousand invaders to subvert order and sow panic in the Spanish city, tormenting the people of Ceuta with relentless vandalism, aggression and crime. True, given the evident collaboration of Pedro Sánchez and his government with the Moroccan authorities in allowing this invasion to happen, a reproach from Madrid might have drawn a response from Rabat that would have exposed his government’s betrayal of Spain even more plainly. It is the latest and most tragic chapter in Sánchez’s record of servitude to the government of Morocco.
Mohammed VI is right that in Spain we have ridiculous immigration laws, with authorities who always apply them in favor of illegal immigration and the pull effect. It is very true, for example, that the policy toward minors has all the hallmarks of a kidnapping. German or Norwegian or Italian children who turn up alone in Spain are back with their families and in their countries within 24 hours. African children are, in effect, forcibly adopted by the Spanish administration.
That has a great deal to do with an industry that has grown up in Spain around immigration, of which the current government is promoter and beneficiary, and which serves to divert massive amounts of public money into private hands via NGOs, associations and related services, all of them in the socialist orbit. And also some bodies and orders of the Church, so that the Spanish bishops never hesitate to applaud immigration, the more the better. The spending per immigrant and on all the services arising from their mass presence adds up to colossal sums that end up in all these organizations, which pay for the staff and for the organizational, propaganda and activist machinery of the left.
There is only one other way just as effective to plunder the public coffers without limit or shame, and that is international cooperation. It hands out billions to the most outlandish, exotic and remote projects, with, of course, no real monitoring or tracing of the funds that reach those supposed beneficiaries. The truth is that in many of those projects Spanish funding is incomprehensible when it is not grotesque. And those budget lines must necessarily answer to other interests, far more logical but unspeakable.
Mohammed VI is right that Spain needs much clearer and more logical laws for its very grave immigration problem, which is already an invasion. And not only in Ceuta. Laws that allow the immediate deportation of anyone, of any age and condition, without legal permission to be on its territory. Laws that remove every incentive to violate the borders, which means preventing illegal immigrants from benefiting from social, medical and housing services. And laws that require all countries of origin to accept their citizens. Spain and the European Union have the means to demand this respect from the countries of origin effectively.
Relations with Morocco will surely improve as soon as the government in Spain is not a lackey of Mohammed VI but a legal and legitimate government with no crimes to hide. Rabat, which has a government that defends its national interests, will get along better with a Spanish government devoted to defending the interests of Spaniards than with a traitorous, cowed government, constrained by a thousand secrets, complexes, fears and cover-ups. The many ambiguities in Spanish-Moroccan relations, many of them created on the Spanish side, must end. With a secure, militarized border in Ceuta and Melilla, an urgent clarification of the real legal status of all Moroccans naturalized as Spaniards without having renounced Moroccan nationality, a swift routine for deporting all illegal immigrants, minors included of course, and an end to hostile gestures, relations should reach a point of normalization.
For that, a policy that systematically favors Morocco to Spain’s detriment must end. This must also be made clear in Brussels, which, alongside the Sánchez government, is the greatest source of grievances, outrages and abuses against Spain for the benefit of Morocco. Let everyone remember that Morocco’s trade with Europe passes through Spain.
We know the effects of the deplorable fact that, while the Moroccan government works for its country, the current government of Spain also works for Morocco and against Spanish interests. The Spanish socialist group in the European Parliament is the Moroccan lobby there. Everything can and must improve in relations between the two countries.
But it is clear today that the demand for mutual respect, I insist, mutual, can only be met when Spain has a legal and legitimate government that defends Spanish interests and not a puppet of foreign or criminal interests.
