Greater than 1,600 migrants arrive on Spanish Canary Islands. One boat carried 320 individuals

MADRID — Some 314 migrants arrived in Spain‘s Canary Islands in two boats early Monday, bringing to greater than 1,600 the variety of migrants to achieve the islands since Friday, emergency companies mentioned.

The service mentioned one boat carrying 229 migrants was escorted to El Hierro island whereas one other with 85 was taken to Tenerife .

Of the boats that arrived over the weekend, one on Saturday was carrying 320 migrants. The state information company EFE mentioned it was the most important quantity in a single boat since human traffickers started to recurrently use the Canary Island route in 1994. The earlier document of 280 was recorded earlier this month.

A lot of the boats arrived at El Hierro, which has acquired a number of thousand migrants in latest weeks. The Canary Islands are situated off the northwest coast of Africa.

A lot of the migrants come from sub-Saharan African nations and a lot of the boats depart from Senegal.

Migrants arriving by boat in Spain spend as much as 72 hours in police custody, for identification, then are moved into varied reception or detention facilities relying on their {cases}. Though some are deported, most apply for asylum and are taken to mainland Spain for his or her petitions to be studied.

Ultimately, many are freed and ordered to go away Spain in the event that they don’t get asylum.

Spain’s Inside Ministry says practically 23,500 migrants reached the Canary Islands by boat between Jan. 1 and Oct. 15. That’s a 90% improve from the identical interval final yr.

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