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Ecuadorian President on a visit to Spain
By h.b. - Jul 12, 2007 - 8:33 AM
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The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, in Terminal Four at Barajas Airport yesterday. With him is the brother of Carlos Alonso Palate, one of the two Ecuadorians to lose their lives in the ETA explosion at the airport last December - Photo EFE
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Rafael Correa was told by the Spanish Prime Minister that there would be no more immigrant amnesties in Spain
The Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, speaking with the visiting President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has insisted that there will be no more immigrant residency amnesties carried out in Spain.

Instead Zapatero said the Government would be studying measures to support the regrouping of the families of the immigrants and their children.

Immigration centred a joint press conference given by the two leaders in the Moncloa Palace yesterday.

Rafael Correa claimed his country was living a new chapter, and he hoped that many Ecuadorians living in Spain would soon be able to return home.

Currently some 500,000 Ecuadorians live in Spain legally, with some estimates of the illegal numbers of immigrants being as high as 700,000.


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