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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

Spanish PM defends plans to regularise half a million undocumented migrants

Pedro Sánchez
In a video on social media, Pedro Sánchez asked: ‘When did empathy become something exceptional?’ Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA

Spain’s prime minister has pushed back against critics of plans to regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, asserting that Spain is choosing the path of “dignity, community and justice”.

The 46-second video, which features Pedro Sánchez speaking in English with subtitles in Spanish, was posted on social media at the weekend. “Some say we’ve gone too far, that we’re going against the current,” he said. “But I would like to ask you, when did recognising rights become something radical? When did empathy become something exceptional?”

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