{"id":2648,"date":"2026-01-28T20:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2026-01-28T20:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:39:02","slug":"spain-legalizes-up-to-500000-undocumented-migrants-sparking-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/spain-legalizes-up-to-500000-undocumented-migrants-sparking-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain legalizes up to 500,000 undocumented migrants, sparking backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2654\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 0.8125rem; font-style: italic;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/spain-legalizes-up-500000-undocumented-migrants-sparking-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2654 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/news-spain-legalizes-500k-800-400-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/news-spain-legalizes-500k-800-400-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/news-spain-legalizes-500k-800-400-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/news-spain-legalizes-500k-800-400-1-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spain legalizes up to 500,000 undocumented migrants, sparking backlash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Spain announced plans to grant legal status to 500,000 undocumented migrants over three years, taking the opposite approach from Trump&#8217;s border crackdown.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">As the United States experiences negative net migration due to President Donald Trump policies, Spain is heading in the opposite direction, announcing plans to grant legal status for up to half a million illegal migrants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Spain\u2019s Socialist-led government approved a royal decree on Tuesday, allowing unauthorized immigrants who entered the country before the end of 2025 and who have lived there for at least five months and have no criminal record to obtain one-year residency and work permits with possible pathways to citizenship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">While many European governments have moved to tighten immigration policies \u2014 some encouraged by the Trump administration\u2019s hardline approach \u2014 Spain has taken a different path. Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez and his ministers have repeatedly highlighted what they describe as the economic benefits of legal migration, particularly for the country\u2019s aging workforce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Source: <em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/spain-legalizes-up-500000-undocumented-migrants-sparking-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain legalizes up to 500,000 undocumented migrants, sparking backlash<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain announced plans to grant legal status to 500,000 undocumented migrants over three years, taking the opposite approach from Trump&#8217;s border crackdown.As the United States experiences negative net migration due to President Donald Trump policies, Spain is heading in the opposite direction, announcing plans to grant legal status for up to half a million illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-opinion","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2657,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}