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Spain is planning to ask the EU for more funds to strengthen border controls. (Photo: EUobserver)

Spain offers immigration amnesty

Spain's socialist government is offering an amnesty to illegal immigrants in the country in an attempt to regularise their situation.

Illegal immigrants who can prove they have a valid work contract will be eligible for the amnesty, according to remarks made by Consuelo Rumi, the state secretary for immigration, published in El Pais.

"It is about easing the social integration of foreigners but also about combating the black market in immigrant labour", said Ms Rumi.

"This do...

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Spain is planning to ask the EU for more funds to strengthen border controls. (Photo: EUobserver)

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