Jupol chief warns mass regularisation could legalise four million migrants

Aarón Rivero, the secretary general of the police union Jupol, addressed a closed parliamentary commission examining the effects of the recent extraordinary immigration regularisation. He accused the government of failing to anticipate the scale of the scheme, noting that the number of people regularised far exceeded the original projection. Rivero warned that, through family reunification, the total could swell to four million legal residents in the coming years.

To support his concerns, he distributed an executive summary containing CENIF and Frontex maps that highlight increased use of secondary migration routes and less-controlled border points. He requested that Frontex representatives testify before the chamber to explain these trends. Additionally, Rivero called for the reinstatement of police authority, arguing that its erosion could foster violence and organized crime, as he claimed has happened in other European countries.