The Spanish PM illuminates how immigrants benefit the country

The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez raised the advantages on Wednesday that immigrants brought during a visit to Mauritania, where he spoke against immigrants in a Spanish city after unrest.

Sanchez, who stood in addition to Maurania's President Moulmed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, said reporters that Spain and other rich countries would owe migrants a lot of development.

However, Mauritania has become an important staging post for migrants without papers who take a dangerous sea route from West Africa to Europe. Many go to Spain.

“Today the progress and the good economic situation of Spain owes the contribution of immigration a lot to the people who have developed their life plans there,” said Sanchez.

The Spanish leader called for a more precise cooperation with countries such as Mauritania, “to ensure safe, regular, organized migration that our societies benefit from each other”.

He spoke as a Spanish authorities to calm several nights of problems in the city of Torre Pacheco, where migrants have been the goal of violence since an attack on a 68-year-old man last week. Spain's right -wing extremist has confiscated the unrest to demand the deportations of migrants.

Sanchez defended the role of migration and in August last year went to three West African nations, including Mauritania, to develop a “round migration” that brings trained workers who need Spain for its economy.

Thousands of potential migrants have died in recent years to make seafaring from Mauritania and other North African countries to Spain and other European Mediterranean countries.

According to the Spanish charity organization Caminando Fronteras, almost 10,500 people died at sea in 2024 alone. According to the official figures, around 46,800 African migrants arrived in Spain's Canary Islands in 2024, although the numbers have fallen this year.

Spanish and Mauritanian officials signed four agreements on traffic and infrastructure, welfare, cyber security and national parks on Wednesday, the Spanish government announced in a statement.