Here’s Spain, taking a very different approach to immigration than most other countries.

Gift link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/20 or archive.vn/STc1P

Spain to Offer Legal Status to 500,000 Undocumented Migrants

The socialist government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is an outlier on migration policy. While other countries have moved to tighten entry requirements and expel undocumented migrants, Sánchez has welcomed them, a stance also aimed at countering the aging of one of the world’s longest-lived populations.

“I’ll say it clearly. No one is expendable in Spain. On the contrary, we lack people,” Sánchez said earlier this month. “Faced with the choice between being a closed and poor nation, Spain is opening itself to the world to ensure prosperity.”

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