The migratory rebound experienced by the Canary Islands in the month of October has broken the record for monthly arrivals of migrants to the islands. The 14,976 people who have arrived in the archipelago represent the highest number since records began, even exceeding the monthly figures during the cayucos crisis of 2006. This is reflected in the latest published data this Thursday by the Ministry of the Interior, and which put the number of total arrivals so far this year at 30,705. The rate of arrivals allows us to predict that the annual maximum recorded in 2006, when 31,678 people arrived in the autonomous community, will also be exceeded.
At the state level, the data accumulated by the Interior until October 31 put the number of immigrants arriving irregularly in Spain at 44,404, 57.5% (16,208 people) above the figures for the same period in 2022. Almost all (43,290 ) of these entries have occurred by sea, especially in the Canary Islands (30,705) and the combined calculation of the Balearic Islands and the rest of the Peninsula (12,392). In the opposite direction, the reception of migrants has decreased in Ceuta and Melilla compared to the previous year. The land entry through the Melilla fence stands out above all, in which only 145 people have entered, a notable reduction compared to the 1,160 recorded in the same period of 2022.
The almost 15,000 migrants who have arrived in the past month represent almost half (49%) of the total entries to the islands in 2023, with an average of 483 people per day who have committed their capacity to care for the new arrivals. The situation, declared an emergency, led the Government to opt for the transfer of many of these migrants to different parts of Spain, especially to Andalusia, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, Extremadura and the Community of Madrid.
The decision opened all kinds of debates and accusations between the Executive and several municipal and regional governments of the PP, which demanded more transparency in the transfer and reception process. The Moncloa, for its part, defended his management and called the critical postulates of the right through the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, “xenophobic.”
Of the bulk of irregular entries that have occurred in the Canary Islands since the beginning of the year, 57% arrived aboard cayucos that left from Senegal, according to police sources. In addition to the distribution of these people throughout Spanish territory, the acting Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, is working to slow the rate of departure of cayucos to the Canary Islands. Marlaska visited his Senegalese counterpart in Dakar on Monday to beg the country’s authorities to control its coasts more and to accept flights that return some migrants to Senegal.
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For the Interior, the non-refoulement of the Senegalese may be an incentive for thousands of other candidates for irregular immigration, but as has been happening in recent years, it has not been possible for the Senegalese Executive to accept more than a few deportations. in dribs and drabs on commercial flights.
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