MADRID, 30 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
More than 30,400 migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands in 2023, a figure that is about to exceed that reached in 2006 in the so-called ‘cayucos crisis’, when at the end of the year a total of 31,678 migrants had been counted.
According to the latest official data from the Ministry of the Interior as of October 15, 23,573 people had arrived in the archipelago, to which we must add some 6,872 people who arrived in the last fifteen days of November, according to data recorded by Europa Press from the figures that Maritime Rescue is providing. The Ministry of the Interior offers official figures every fifteen days on the arrival of migrants through irregular routes to Spain, a balance that is expected to be published this Tuesday, October 31.
According to the latest data available from the Interior, this year the arrival of people to the Canary Islands has increased by 79.4%. This migratory rebound has been especially accentuated in this month of October, which has accounted for more than half of the arrivals of the entire year, with more than 15,000. In the first fortnight, 8,561 migrants arrived and from October 16 to 30, at least 6,708 arrived.
Similarly, this Monday, a boat with more than 200 migrants of sub-Saharan origin arrived at the port of Los Cristianos, in Tenerife, including two deceased. Specifically, and pending the final count, a total of 209 people were traveling on the boat: 154 men, 21 women and 34 possible minors, as official Maritime Rescue sources have informed Europa Press.
The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá, has called this Tuesday, October 30, to an information meeting by videoconference for mayors of the main Spanish municipalities, the president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), María José Pelayo, and the councilors of the autonomous communities to address the migration crisis that mainly affects the Canary Islands.
The meeting will take place this Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. and will inform about the device to address the migration crisis and resolve any doubts that may arise in this regard. Of the total number of migrants who arrived in the Canary Islands this year, some 5,000 have been transferred to the Peninsula, according to the latest figure provided by the minister.
