Mustafà, a resident in Spain for 20 years, intervened in the Palma protest wearing a national team shirt and a Spanish flag. He defends legal immigration and denounces that irregular immigration saturates healthcare and housing.
Mustafà, originally from Tetuán and a resident in Spain for almost 21 years, became one of the most talked-about voices at the protest held in Palma this weekend. Wearing a Spanish national team shirt and holding a Spanish flag, he called for a migration policy based on the law and criticized the Government's management.
“I have been here for almost 21 years. I have studied, I have worked, and everything legally,” he stated to the attendees. In his view, irregular immigration is deteriorating public services and making it difficult for young people to access housing. In his speech, he requested that public resources be prioritised for healthcare and education.
As an example of this saturation, he recounted his own experience with waiting lists in public healthcare: he has been waiting for medical tests for months due to a leg injury. He compared this delay with the attention that, according to him, some newly arrived immigrants receive.
Mustafà insisted that he is not against immigration, but against immigration that occurs outside the law. “We need people who work, but only if they come legally,” he emphasised. He also expressed his concern for public safety and border control.
The young man lamented that the behaviour of those who commit crimes ends up harming the image of legal immigrants who follow the rules. “Because of a few, they put us all in the same bag,” he asserted. He reported having faced situations of discrimination despite working, studying, and paying taxes.
His speech concluded with a harsh criticism of the Government, which he held responsible for the current situation and called for elections. The protest, which gathered more than five hundred people in front of the Moroccan Consulate in Palma, was framed in the rejection of the "invasion of Ceuta".
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