More than 1,000 migrants arrive in the Canary Islands in one weekend with resources at their limit

More of 1,000 migrants of sub-Saharan origin have arrived on the Canary coast this Friday in 13 canoesof which six have landed on the island of The iron. On Saturday, 337 people – including more than 20 minors – were rescued in different boats when they tried to reach Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. The rate of arrivals does not stop growing. This Sunday, other 500 people They have arrived at the archipelago after completing the Canary Islands route. Many of the migrants have remained for hours in the Los Cristianos piercrowded on the ground, without tents and in full yellow warning for heat.

The Integrated External Surveillance System (SIVE) and the Talía Guard rescued this Sunday in the Lobos Island a boat with 50 adult men on board, almost all of them of North African origin. A few hours before, the Polyhymnia had landed at 42 adult males at the Arrecife dock. In Fuerteventura, emergency services have rescued another 69 people of sub-Saharan origin, among whom were 12 women. The zodiac was sighted in this case by a merchant. Finally, in El Hierro, Maritime Rescue has taken to the port three boats with 56, 205 and 11 people on board respectively.

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The intensity of arrivals has put against the ropes The iron, although the Ministry of Migration assures that the reception centers still have free places. Friday night, near 200 people have had to sleep outdoors in Tenerife to prevent the collapse of the westernmost island of the archipelago. Journalist Txema Santana has shared several images of a group of migrants, including a girl and a pregnant woman, crowded on the asphalt of the Los Cristianos pier.

This Saturday they arrived in Tenerife, Fuerteventura, The iron and Lanzarote near 337 people in six boats. The migrants rescued in El Hierro have been transferred to reception centers in the rest of the archipelago. The Las Raíces camp, in Tenerife, is one of the spaces with the largest capacity on the islands —about 2,000 places—. The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has described the situation as “outrageous” and has asked for the intervention of the central government. “The images are reminiscent of the Arguineguín pier of shame”, he added in a Twitter post, in reference to the 2020 migration crisis.

The general secretary of the PSOE in the Canary Islands, Angel Victor Torres, has asked the regional Executive for a quick response so that the communities welcome the migrant minors who have arrived this weekend in the archipelago. This Friday more than 1,000 people to the islands and the improvised spaces that the emergency services have set up in El Hierro to provide care are once again overwhelmed. The second weekend of September, 1,300 people arrived on the Canary coast in a record rebound in the migratory route.

The acting Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaskahas guaranteed this Sunday the existence of “personal and material means to deal with the arrival of irregular migrants to the Canary Islands”. The person responsible for the portfolio ensures that local authorities can “diversify” the distribution of rescued people and highlights the available infrastructure. The Ministry of Migration has around thirty open devices, especially in Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzaroteincluding several rented apartments and hotels.

“Thanks to the policy of increasing incentives in recent years, We have enough agents to immediately address this situation, that we will not let him fall,” the minister specified. Marlaska has downplayed the recorded peak and believes that “instability” can cause “specific moments” of record arrivals, but that “does not mean that there is no coordination policy with the countries of origin.” The head of the Interior has assured that the Government complies with the “humanitarian parameters” required by people who arrive in “really difficult conditions.”