One in 42 Spanish residents is in the country illegally, according to applications for a controversial immigrant amnesty introduced by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
根据西班牙首相佩德罗•桑切斯(Pedro Sánchez)推出的一项有争议的移民大赦计划的申请情况，每42名西班牙居民中就有一人非法居留该国。
Almost 1.2mn unauthorised immigrants applied for legal status under the amnesty programme, the leftwing government said on Thursday, far exceeding its estimates that as many as 500,000 would apply.
桑切斯领导的左翼政府周四表示，近120万名无合法身份移民根据大赦计划申请了合法身份，这一数字远超政府此前预计的50万人。
The programme has become a symbol of Sánchez’s status as the last leader of a big European country maintaining an open-door immigration policy, while other governments across the continent and in the US impose new controls at their borders.
该计划标志着桑切斯是欧洲大国中最后一位保持“开放移民”政策的领导人，而欧洲其他国家及美国纷纷在边境祭出新的管控措施。