http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/17/peoples-party-catalonia-videoPeople's party candidate in Catalonia, Alicia Sánchez Camacho, accused of trying to use immigration to win votesSpain's opposition People's party has been forced to remove a video game from its website that showed its main candidate at regional elections in Catalonia destroying illegal immigrants.
The game's removal comes as the candidate, Alicia Sánchez Camacho, and others attempt to turn the 28 November vote into the first election in Spain in which immigration has played a major role.
This year Sánchez Camacho had to apologise for a pamphlet linking immigrants with crime, which featured a photograph of a banner saying: "We don't want Romanians." "I am concerned about whatever worries Catalans, and one of the things that most worries Catalans is immigration," she said recently.
Other Catalan parties have also played the immigration card. Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida, one of the leaders of the Catalan nationalist Convergence and Union coalition, which looks set to win the vote, has complained that too many babies born in Catalonia have immigrant mothers.
Ahh, the right wing going after immigrants to try to win votes again. Same play book, different location.
Someone should point out to Ms. Sanchez Camacho that "Romanians" can't be "illegal", since they belong to the EU, any more than Californians can be "illegal" in Ohio.
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