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Spanish PM tells SpaceX’s Musk ‘Mars can wait, humanity can’t’ in defence of migrant move

Spain plans to regularise about 500,000 undocumented migrants to support its ageing workforce and pension system, amid opposition claims of electoral motives.

  • Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez defended granting legal status to 500,000 undocumented workers, stating, 'Mars can wait. Humanity can’t.'
  • Sanchez argues that immigrants are vital for Spain's economy, which grew by 2.8% in 2025, helping sustain the workforce amid low birth rates.
  • Spain's Justice Minister Felix Bolanos accused Elon Musk of undermining democracy, alleging billionaires threaten social cohesion.
  • Musk criticized the plan as 'electoral engineering', while also labeling Sanchez a 'fascist totalitarian', further escalating the public conflict.
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The president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, does not cease his struggle in the social networks against the "tecnocasta", denomination that coined last 2025 to refer to the great technological magnates replicated by the minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, and has charged against the denunciation of Telegram on the dangers of the prohibition of the social networks to the under 16 years that "erosiones the anonymity" of the users.With a message…

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La Moncloa points out to Dúrov for using his platform to "sign, disinform and spread political propaganda against a democratic government."

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Elon Musk, the owner of X, attacked yesterday the first calling him "dirty Sanchez" and "fascist", and this afternoon the owner of Telegram accused the president of the Spanish government of "encouraging new dangerous regulations that threaten your [the] freedoms." The criticisms of the Russian tycoon Pável Dúrov have arrived in a massive message never seen before in the history of the platform: a direct attack sent to all users against a Europe…

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The extraordinary regularization of migrants agreed by the government of Pedro Sánchez and his partner Podemos and approved last Tuesday in a Royal Decree opens the door for some 500,000 foreigners to obtain in the medium term work and residence permit in Eapaña.It is the first regularization of immigrants from the executive branch of Sánchez, but it is not an exception, because there are already seven approved in democracy.The previous one took…

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20minutos broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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