More details are coming in about the number of applications filed by illegal immigrants looking to “regularize” their residence in Spain under the amnesty pushed through by the country’s socialist government. Recent talk has been of about 1.3 million applications, although in this report in the Financial Times, the number given is just under 1.2 million, roughly equivalent to 2 percent of the Spanish population. Either number is a lot more than the 500,000 that was the official, although widely disbelieved, government forecast made at the time the amnesty was announced.
Spain’s immigration minister is quoted by the FT as saying ...
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