As countries on both sides of the Atlantic ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants, Spain’s left-wing government is preparing to give legal status to hundreds of thousands of irregular workers. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has championed the amnesty as a way to not only give informal workers legal protections, but to also bring more money into a social security system increasingly under stress by the country’s ageing population.
If there’s anyone who should be punished, it’s the employers benefitting from undocumented migrant work.
Have them cover the costs, whether of legal status or of deportation with financial compensation to those deported (depending on your stance on migration).