The government’s ‘solution’ is simply to give many of them residency papers following a campaign by pressure group Regularisation Now, which spearheaded a petition containing 700,000 signatures calling for the mass amnesty.

Yolanda Diaz, deputy prime minister and labour minister, said the legislation was crucial to give sanctuary to “half a million people who live and work in our country as our neighbours,” adding that “racism” should be met with “more rights”.

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