From Spain Herald:
Police union spokesman Rodrigo Gavilan said yesterday that the administration canceled a flight that would have carried 90 officers to Grand Canary island in order to proceed to the deportation of 180 illegal immigrants to Mauritania and Guinea. However, those two countries were not willing to accept the deportees. Gavilan added that, as it is not possible to deport the immigrants, “all those that arrive are transported to mainland Spain, five thousand so far.”
Deputy prime minister María Teresa Fernández de la Vega said that due to the mass arrival of open boats carrying illegals to the Canary coasts, that all illegal immigrants would be repatriated. She also announced agreements with the illegals’ countries of origin to return them. According to Gavilan, however, reality is very different.
With the Canary Islands struggling to cope with a stream of would-be immigrants from Africa, the Spanish government has launched a diplomatic offensive to bring the situation under control.
On Thursday, foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said a special ambassador and a team of diplomats would begin “three to six-month” missions in Africa from Sunday. He said the diplomats would operate in Senegal, Gambia, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Niger. Almost 7 000 people have survived the maritime odyssey to reach the Canaries in makeshift vessels so far this year. Moratinos, speaking a day after Madrid called on African governments to help stem the number of arrivals, said the diplomats would “work jointly with the countries to face up to the migratory flux”.
Thursday saw dozens of more arrivals, with 57 immigrants picked up at Los Cristianos port in southern Tenerife.The immigrant hopefuls added to the 278 who landed on the island in “cayucos”, makeshift boats from Senegal and Mauritania, on Wednesday.
6 785 illegal immigrants have arrived so far
Moratinos said the Spanish cabinet would approve the “immediate” sending of an ambassador to Mali on Friday. Malians make up a large proportion of the immigrants coming to Spain. He said: “Spain will set up a bureau for the centralisation of all efforts (to deal with the immigrant issue) in sub-Saharan capitals.”
In fact they are so much that they are overflowing Canarian facilities, whatever Vice-President De La Vega says (By the way, she was proposing that Spanish people should use an “inhabitant solution of only 30 m2 while she has built for herself one of 505 m2. What a good example of equality! Just like the Chinese one I was referring to in this post).
This happens after the unresponsible decision Zapatero Administration took last year, socially codenamed “Papers for all”, as intelestual reminds us. Germany and France said that this measures were not going to take place in their soil. And this last Thursday, France passed a a new inmigration law (read it all here):
The law aims to attract skilled workers while keeping less skilled ones out. Critics say it will stigmatize foreigners, discriminate against the poor and undermine France’s traditional role as a haven for the persecuted.
He, he, this is very good: what this journalists do not take into account is that if inmigrants come here without a job and without perspective of having one, they are going to go directly into crime. This not a consecuence of inmigration itself but of seriously wrong policies and irresponsibility. Because if there is no plan for inmigration the only solution is to beg for money in order to give inmigrants something to live upon. So instead of being collaborating with the country they have arrived to, this makes them only parasites and non-contributing people.
In the end, the French inmigration law can even worsen the problem, because all of the illegal inmigrants they have, are going to rush to come here. Shenghen Treaty has opened interior borders in Europe and as a result there is nothing to detain them moving through it.
UPDATE: From BBC:
The European Parliament is sending a delegation to the Canary Islands early in June to examine the conditions in which the immigrants are being kept and the problems caused by illegal immigration.
This is getting worse each day…
Tags: Inmigration, Spain, Zapatero, De La Vega, Moratinos
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why you guys think Mexicans are a problem?
You haven’t read it, do you? This is SPAIN, not US. This post is against Spanish socialists’ policy supporting indiscriminated immigration and, in the end, illegal one, as they have legalised 700.000 immigrants who did not fulfill the legal requirements to stay in Spain.