For six years, the movement “Regularización Ya” fought to bring into Parliament a simple but radical idea: that the people most affected by migration policy should be the ones shaping it.
What followed was one of the most remarkable grassroots campaigns in recent Spanish history — over 700,000 signatures, a parliamentary debate, and finally, in January 2026, the approval of an extraordinary regularization process that could transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of undocumented people.
Our Spanish partner @elsaltodiario met Edith Spinola, one of the movement’s leading voices, to trace the full arc of this struggle.
This is a story about persistence, collective power, and what happens when people decide to write their own history.
This video is part of our monthly “Power” series.
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