amnesty

She hopes there will be a program like the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act she lobbied for, which created amnesty for nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Rodriguez also pushed through a historic amnesty law in February.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

But he also asked lawmakers to consider a kind of "special amnesty for those who repent."

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Earlier this year, the Spanish government of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said it would offer amnesty and legalize an estimated half a million immigrants who had arrived illegally in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

But that day, I did not have much opportunity to sight-see for I met immediately with the men protesting the government offer of amnesty.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The move has been accompanied by some rollbacks of post-coup curbs and prisoner amnesties, which analysts have likewise dismissed as lip-service measures to launder the leadership's reputation.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Argentina has announced dozens of tax amnesties over the years, only for the rules to be reversed by subsequent governments, which sometimes chase down Argentines for the assets and cash they just declared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

Additionally, government amnesties for shoddy construction allowed transgressors to pay fines rather than tear down or fix dangerous buildings.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

Uruguay returned to democracy in 1985, but an immunity law granting amnesties to members of the armed forces accused of human rights violations was in force until 2011.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024

I pledge myself to produce, in the history of the Mogul empire, a series of pardons and amnesties for rebellions, from its earliest establishments, and in its most distant provinces.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Running as an outsider, Chavez, amnestied from prison only four years earlier, won the presidency, though with a total turnout of just 36%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

Dozens of those arrested in the crackdown have recently been amnestied or freed from pre-trial detention, though rights groups say thousands remain jailed.

From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2022

When she and Tolokonnikova are amnestied by Putin, Alyokhina thinks, “Everyone needed this amnesty but me.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2017

He questioned why imprisoned rebels who were amnestied six months ago remain in jail and complained about the state of the Mariana Paez demobilization camp where the ceremony was taking place.

From Time ● Jun. 27, 2017

He was amnestied and free to return to Germany, and he could do little good there.

From Wagner by John F. Runciman

Kobe Bryant will most likely return when he is healthy, unless one believes that this Lakers organization would risk the backlash involved in amnestying him, but nobody knows when that will be.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2013