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Mon 07 Jul 2009No regrets, as home beckons after the boom
Unemployment among immigrants in Spain could reach 30 per cent by the end of the year, writes RUADHÁN Mac CORMAIC,Migration Correspondent
“REGRETS?” Pedro Martín Galán leans back in his chair, shrugs a shoulder and ponders the question for a moment. “To be human is always to regret. But a decision that you take to do well by your family is not a decision I feel I can regret.” As he prepares to leave Madrid, his home for the past five years, and return to his native Ecuador, Galán consoles himself with the belief that he has been left with no alternative.
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