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...economic concerns shouldn't apply to exiles' descendants, argues García. "We're not foreigners. We're Spanish...
...Under the law, the descendants have until December 2010 to present themselves at the Spanish embassy in their home country and turn in documentation that proves their parents or grandparents fled Spain between 1936 and 1955. They do not need to relinquish their current citizenship...
...provisions are perhaps most attractive to Cubans. On Saturday, the Spanish news agency EFE reported that hundreds of Cubans spent Christmas night lined up outside the Spanish consulate in Havana, waiting to pick up the necessary application forms. One of them was William, a 38-year-old resident of Havana, whose reasons for seeking Spanish nationality were not purely cultural. "In Spain, you can work, earn money, live comfortably," he told...
...that's not the only benefit of a Spanish passport. "Once you have it, you can leave Cuba and go to the United States," says Casanova, who has five or six cousins planning to do just that. "It's closer, and you have more family there...
...That will come as welcome news to the Spanish government, which is currently attempting to reduce immigration into the country. In response to the global economic crisis, Spain's once receptive labor ministry recently introduced a plan that essentially pays unemployed migrants to return to their country of origin. On Dec. 20, the administration extended the period during which police can detain undocumented migrants and barred legally registered immigrants from bringing over any family member of working...