FACT-CHECK: The EU did not receive 5.1 million "illegal immigrants" in 2022 as Abascal says

Santiago Abascal gave figures of arrivals of “illegal immigrants” to Europe in 2022 in the appearance of Pedro Sánchez in Congress on defense spending. “In 2022 the EU received 5.1 million illegal immigrants, more than double as compared to 2021, and the majority from Muslim countries,” said the leader of Vox (minute 9:33). But what he says is misleading because it is mixing figures that measure different things. Part of his statement is true, b…