Ben Harnwell

that date if you were in by the 31st and had been there for five months before then then you will be eligible for those residence and work permits and not only that the moment you apply for those residency permits any deportation proceedings are immediately halted and not only that but once you get those residency permits you'll then be able to travel

anywhere in the European Union on those documents of course technically you would only be allowed to stay in another EU country for three months before returning but if you entered into Spain illegally and that's not a problem for you then going to another EU country and staying there illegally isn't going to be a problem for you either that is what the current Spanish

government is doing, and I think it's an absolute betrayal of the Spanish people.

Gonzalo, thanks for coming back on the show.

Why don't you tell us, start off with explaining to us what the procedure is here, because there's so much to learn about how these left-wing socialist governments operate.

This isn't being done by a vote in parliament.

with debate and accountability.

This is being done by royal decree.

Gonzalo, tell the Warren Posse exactly what is going down in Spain right now.

So you mean by that, once these people are regularised and eventually get citizenship, they will all be voting for the left, right?

I'm not putting words into your mouth, that's what you're saying.

This is a way how the left-wing socialist government can increase its voter base by 500,000 people, right?

That's your argument?

Tell me something about the anger in Spain right now, not simply on the maneuver to regularize half a million people, but the process and the way that it's being done.

How is that going down in Spain?

Let me ask you this.

People are seeing this regularization, if I can use the word, regularization of 500,000 people and they're seeing it being done via royal decree and not through a straight up honest vote in Parliament.

Are there any people saying in Spain if this is how democracy works

then democracy has failed.

What I mean to say, is this kind of maneuver in Spain putting the idea of democracy itself in danger?