Spain could see five million more migrants with “legal” status in the country by 2030 as a consequence of socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s ongoing mass amnesty plans, Spain’s National Police reportedly warned authorities through internal reports. Spain’s socialist government is presently carrying out a widely-controversial mass amnesty process that will soon see half a million illegal migrants in Spain receive “legal” work and residence permits. Migration specialists at Spain’s National Police, however, have reportedly warned to the nation’s Interior Ministry that it is highly likely that beneficiaries of the amnesty will end up availing themselves of family reunification chain migration methods that exist in Spanish laws to bring their relatives into the country in the following years.
Unnamed police officers spoke with the Spanish outlet El Español and affirmed the existence of the reports issued by the police to the Ministry. In the reports, the National Police projects that the Spanish socialist government will grant “legal status” to as many as 1.5 million illegal in the coming years — an amount three times higher than the “half a million” that will receive amnesty once the ongoing mass amnesty process ends.
