Eight million deportations in Spain due to poor syntax

Front page headline ofThe Country: "Vox defends the deportation of eight million immigrants." Tweet by Santiago Abascal: "Vox has not said the number of those who should be deported. Simply because we do not know." And he adds that they are all those who have come to commit crimes or to "impose a strange religion" noses, believe in reincarnation, prostrate themselves facing Mecca or drink wine as if it were the blood of the son of God. starred in scenes of insecurity in our neighborhoods will have to return to their countries." A little earlier he had specified that "these millions of people" were "more than seven." So the phrase, once cleaned of syntactical garbage –not even bleach would eliminate the ideological one– and lacking conditionals, is summarized as "More than seven."

That said, The Country He knows perfectly well that Vox is not advocating expelling eight million people from Spain. The newspaper has seized on a poorly worded phrase and absurdly elevated it to the front page. I'm not saying Vox doesn't dream of mass deportations, but it knows it's a task it couldn't take on or manage. What has happened is that, when one starts with xenophobic outbursts, one ends up getting bogged down in rhetorical gibberish. Now, Abascal can't pretend to be offended either: in these crevices of his troops' subconscious—oh, the treacherous syntax—the government program won't be found, but it's obvious that the most intimate desires are slipping through the net.