Over 1.3 million applications have been submitted by undocumented migrants in Spain, taking advantage of an amnesty offer by the Spanish government of Pedro Sánchez. The government had expected only half that number of applicants, according to the London Telegraph. According to authorities, the requirements are not particularly strict, and those approved will receive a one-year residence and work permit.
This is another case where Spain is completely at odds with the rest of the EU—and is also helping to save the honor of Europe, as it did with Gaza, Iran, and other policies—as Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche has repeatedly stated. Sánchez’s approach to immigration is also in line with Pope Leo’s central message during his recent trip to Spain.
There are media reports that undocumented migrants across Europe are now flocking to Spain to try to regularize their situation. This will call the issue for other European countries, when migrants legalized in Spain try to go to the rest of the Schengen Area.
Needless to say, the right-wing PP and Vox parties in Spain are adamantly opposed to the policy, as President Trump undoubtedly will be as well. Worth noting, as the Telegraph does, is that the largest amnesty for migrants in history was carried out by Ronald Reagan, whose amnesty was “signed into law in 1986, which granted permanent legal residence to about 2.7 million undocumented immigrants, the most ever.”
