Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's decision to grant an estimated 500,000 undocumented migrants legal status has sparked a lively debate about migration across Europe, but also opened the door to a series of misleading claims.
In an X post on 14 April, Jordan Bardella, leader of the French far-right National Rally party, claimed that newly documented individuals "will tomorrow be able to travel freely in France and even settle there, attracted by the generosity of our social system, which is open without conditions."