RIGHT SPEAK: In Spain, Illegal Migrants Need Only Declare They Have No Criminal Record: Leftist Insanity; Spain’s Plan for Undocumented Migrants Set to Expand from 500,000 to 1 Million

In Spain, Illegal Migrants Need Only Declare They Have No Criminal Record:

Leftist insanity

The madness goes on and on. In socialist Spain, the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has come up with a novel way to investigate the criminal histories of illegal migrants. It asks them. That’s right: each migrant is asked if he has a criminal history in his country of origin. If he says “no,” that is the end of the matter. No further probing need take place. If this sounds like madness, it is because it is madness. More on Spain’s folly can be found here: “Spain Amnesty: Gov’t to Take Illegals’ Word That They Don’t Have Criminal Record,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, February 5, 2026:

The socialist Spanish government’s amnesty scheme will allow illegal migrants to simply declare that they have no criminal record, rather than providing documentation from their native countries, sparking concern over criminals gaming the system.

Last month, the left-wing coalition government of Socialist PM Pedro Sánchez agreed to allow upwards of half a million illegals seek amnesty and obtain residence permits to remain in Spain.

While the scheme stipulates that amnesty will not apply to migrants with criminal records — other than the crime of entering Spain illegally — the regularisation decree published by the government this week revealed that Madrid will essentially be willing to take the word of illegal migrants about their past.

According to the ABC newspaper, an illegal will be able to make such a declaration if they can show that they have merely requested their criminal history from their country of origin or the country where they have resided in the past five years.

“If this information is not received within one month, the Administration will inform the interested party of this circumstance, who may submit a sworn statement of the absence of a criminal record,” the decree states.

In other words, if the illegal’s country of origin does not send a statement about his criminal history, or lack of it, within one month, then the Spanish government will be satisfied if the migrant makes a sworn statement that he has no criminal record. And it is known that governments almost never take as little as a month to produce such records. What migrant with a criminal record would choose to reveal it? This policy is madness on stilts. --->READ MORE HERE

Spain’s plan for undocumented migrants set to expand from 500,000 to 1 Million:

The number of undocumented migrants expected to receive legal status in Spain has doubled to around one million under the government’s residency regularisation plan, according to an in-depth police report, far exceeding the original estimate of roughly 500,000.

What was first described as a pathway to legal status for around 500,000 people has grown far larger than expected. New government estimates suggest that between 750,000 and one million people already living in Spain without full legal status could qualify. If certain pending asylum cases are included, the final number of beneficiaries could rise even further.

One of the largest schemes in modern Europe

The policy, approved by Spain’s Socialist-led government, would grant residency and work permits to undocumented migrants who can prove they were living in the country before a set cut-off date and meet key requirements, such as having no serious criminal record.

Ministers say the aim is simple: bring long-term residents out of legal uncertainty and into the formal system.

Spain has carried out regularisation programmes before. But because of its potential size, this one could become one of the most significant in recent European history. The debate has intensified not because the idea is new but because the number of people who may qualify is much higher than originally thought.

Government sources insist the jump in figures reflects better data, not a policy shift. Early estimates were based on provisional calculations. As officials reviewed residency records and application data more closely, they concluded that the number of eligible migrants was substantially higher.