Spain’s Mass Amnesty for Illegal Migrants Could Make Three Million Muslims Legal Citizens

The most corrupt leader in modern Spanish history, the Socialist Pedro Sánchez, plans to declare a mass amnesty for illegal migrants in the country, but his estimate of half a million people benefiting from this regularization is likely to be a great underestimate. More on Sanchez’ determination to provide amnesty for what may turn out to be as many as three million people obtaining legal status can be found here: “Spain’s mass migrant amnesty could bring three million people into legal system, causing immigration checks to ‘collapse,’ warn senior police officials,” Remix News, July 14, 2026:

These migrants are almost entirely Muslims from North Africa. Whether legal or illegal, they have not been able to integrate successfully into Spanish society. They have been a terrific economic burden on the state, which spends tens of billions of euros annually on all the benefits it provides to those migrants — free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances, and more. They commit crimes of both property — street robberies, home burglaries, shoplifting — and of violence, including rape and murder, at rates far above those of the indigenous Spanish. Pedro Sánchez doesn’t care; he wants more Muslim migrants to have their status “regularized,” turning illegals into legal migrants, and then eventually into citizens who, out of gratitude, will vote overwhelmingly for the Socialists.

They warned that the process is widely open to abuse, suggesting that regularized foreigners could charge illegal migrants to “pose as relatives. In other words, paying for papers and certificates.”

They also accused the government of deliberately reducing the police role in the process and transferring greater responsibility to the Ministry of Migration.

Under the proposed system, police would largely produce residence cards after applications had already been approved by immigration officials. The senior officers argued that ministry personnel lack the specialist training needed to verify foreign documents and criminal records properly.

The police now have a reduced role, apparently rubber-stamping what immigration officials, whom the Sánchez government appoints, decide — and that means, those officials must follow orders from above, to make “illegal migrants” by official fiat into “legal” ones. The police are furious at being cut out of the process, rightly insisting that only they have the training to vet foreign documents presented by the migrants, and to verify criminal records. But they have had those matters transferred to immigration officials whose task is not to vet, but to approve, the wholesale metamorphosis of “illegals” into ”legal migrants.”

The National Police’s General Commissariat for Immigration and Borders had previously challenged the government’s justification for treating the measure as an urgent social emergency, under which Sánchez passed the amnesty by royal decree, effectively bypassing any parliamentary oversight….

There was no “urgent social emergency” that justified Sánchez’ amnesty for illegals, but by so invoking it, Sánchez bypassed a vote in the Cortes Generales, Spain’s Parliament. He alone forced the adoption of a law that will forever change, for the worse, the demography of Spain.

With this regularization that turns illegals into legal migrants, more people outside Spain will want to enter the country to take advantage of its leniency, and will make increased efforts to enter Spain illegally, now keenly aware that that they can become legal after living in Spain for only five months.

Sanchez’ measure would, he predicts, lead to 500,000 illegals becoming legal. But the police think it is many more — some 1.2 million illegals — who will be affected. How will this sudden increase in legal migrants, entitled to every benefit the Spanish state offers, be handled? Can the welfare system suddenly accommodate 1.2 million new recipients? Are there enough teachers and classrooms? How will the hospitals handle the medical needs of this sudden influx of 1.2 million people?

Once these illegal migrants in Spain have overnight become legal, they will be free to travel throughout Schengenland — that is, throughout the 25 countries that are bound by the Schengen Treaty — which naturally disturbs the conservatives who already find the Muslim migrants living in their countries alarming, and who worry they will be overwhelmed with still more Muslim legal migrants arriving from Spain.

Vox leader Santiago Abascal accused Sánchez of attempting to expand the future electorate by eventually granting citizenship to large numbers of foreign residents.

Of course Abascal is right; that’s exactly what Sánchez is planning. First, he will make up to 1.2 illegals into legal migrants. Then he will lessen the requirements, and the waiting time, to acquire Spanish citizenship. And those new citizens, overwhelmingly Muslims from North Africa, will naturally vote for Sanchez and his Socialists.

Not only will up to 1.35 million people in Spain — both illegal migrants and asylum seekers — now qualify for legal status, but this policy puts them on the path to citizenship, which will swell the ranks of Muslim voters in Spain, who will then vote either for fellow Muslims or for those who, though non-Muslim, are far-left political figures, such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon of La France Insoumise in France, eager to do the bidding of the ever-expanding Muslim electorate.