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After 2008 financial crisis which sent unemployment soaring to 25 percent thousands of professionals left Spain for jobs abroad
Labor shortages in technology hospitality agriculture and elderly care are being addressed by granting international students work permits
Government smartly prioritized immigrants from Latin America allowing them to apply for citizenship after just two years
Venezuelans are now barred from entering the United States thanks to Mr Trump
Push for undocumented immigrants' amnesty was endorsed by 900 nongovernmental organizations business groups and even the Spanish Conference of Bishops
In first three months of year 25000 Venezuelans took up the opportunity
During Spanish Civil War and four-decade-long dictatorship of Gen Francisco Franco some two million people were forced to leave the country
These reforms could open a path to Spanish citizenship to more than one million people
Spain was for centuries a mass exporter of people
Immigrants have also been incentivized to settle in so-called Empty Spain those parts of country where population has dried up
To enter Spain Venezuelans need only a plane ticket and a valid passport
He has emphasized its economic benefits including bringing younger workers into social security system and filling jobs unwanted by Spaniards
Push for undocumented immigrants' amnesty did not originate with the government
Spain's economy is fueled by travel and tourism industry brimming with jobs that most Spaniards do not want
Spain has a big economy fourth largest in the E.U
Last year national birthrate was 1.4
Government has designed a humane and pragmatic approach
Strength of regional nationalism in places like Catalonia Basque Country and Galicia makes it harder for right-wing politicians to mobilize public against immigration through nationalist appeals and xenophobic arguments
It took until 2019 for an explicitly anti-migrant party the far-right Vox to even enter the Spanish Parliament
Mr Sánchez's approach is far from an experiment with open borders