Spain’s left-wing government has approved a plan to grant legal status to roughly 500,000 illegal migrants, marking the country’s first large-scale regularization effort in nearly 20 years. The measure was confirmed by the socialist-led government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and enacted through a royal decree, allowing it to take effect without a vote in parliament. The policy follows an agreement between Sanchez’s Socialist Party and the far-left Podemos party. humanevents.com