(CN) — More than 1.3 million migrants living in Spain without permission applied for amnesty before a Tuesday deadline, but the country’s Supreme Court signaled it might strike down the law.
Under the amnesty, successful applicants will be given a one-year residency and a work permit that can be renewed. But hopeful migrants were dealt a blow Tuesday after the Supreme Court said it would review the measure because it potentially contravened the European Union’s new tough migration laws, a package known as the Pact on Migration and Asylum. The EU laws went into force on June 12.
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