Congress is going to debate a proposal for massive regularization of immigrants who live and work without papers in Spain from 2021. A man from Mali who arrived in 2004 and a Colombian woman who arrived three years ago recount their lives as second-class citizens.
The initiative has served, at least, to remind the more than 390,000 people who, according to the promoters of the measure, meet these conditions, says Atocha Vtocha, a journalist with La Vanguardia. “I feel trapped in an absurd loop: he falsifies papers because he has no papers and they deny him the papers because they have falsified the papers,” says Amadou, 40 years old, born in Mali. ‘I only have a bicycle and a refrigerator, she says that I keep in a friend's storage room,’ he adds that he feels that he could talk by the life he chose and that if he returned to Mali he wouldn't be able to buy things that he doesn't like to buy.