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During the Civil War and after, presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson extended amnesty to about 200,000 people.

Mr. Gingrich's advisers said that he did not misspeak at the debate and pointed out that his comments were in line with decades of positioning on the subject, including his support for the 1986 immigration overhaul signed by President Ronald Reagan that extended amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants.

Last year he said that extending amnesty beyond the so-called Dreamers (the children of undocumented immigrants brought here at an early age) would be "ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally". It is hard to think of a confession more damning to his position in a court of law, in a congressional court of impeachment and in the court of public opinion.

Letters of reconciliation were dispatched to Rome extending amnesty to the Senate and recognizing the laws, while also condemning the administration of Macrinus and his son.

In June 1985, three months after the miners admitted defeat and ended their strike, Benn introduced the Miners' Amnesty (General Pardon) Bill into the Commons, which would have extended an amnesty to all miners imprisoned during the strike.

The tax agency on Monday extended an amnesty program intended to identify those suspected of tax evasion through secret offshore accounts.

The ethnic Albanian guerrillas agreed to disarm under NATO supervision, and the Macedonian government has extended an amnesty for the fighters.

That action extended the amnesty to immigrants who had left the country and then used fraudulent documents to be readmitted, and shielded from deportation minor children whose parents qualified.

An amendment on Wednesday extended the amnesty to suspects in cases of hooliganism, which includes the Arctic 30, who were arrested aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise in September.

Buhari has extended an amnesty deal signed with militants in 2009 that stepped up funding for the region.

The Lib Dems concede that this may have been the case in Spain, which has extended several amnesties over the past 20 years.