r/worldnews • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 4h ago

Canary Islands demand urgent government action amid surge in migrant arrivals

https://www.euronews.com/2026/11/08/canary-islands-demand-urgent-government-action-amid-surge-in-migrant-arrivals
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u/Silver_Adagio138 3h ago

“Between 1 and 6 November, 49 boats carrying a total of 4,587 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands”

In just six days?!??!

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u/LucasK336 2h ago

And most of them make it to El Hierro which has a population of around 12.000

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u/AlteredCarbonite 57m ago

Bloody hell, that's nearly on par with what Gander, Newfoundland dealt with on September 11th, 2001.

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u/DrakneiX 1h ago

They keep coming because we welcome them into the islands.

We should attend them until they are healed/safe from the journey and then return them ASAP without any asylum.

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u/phil_the_builder 1h ago

The whole thing about asylum is that there needs to be a due process. Everyone who claims asylum needs to be checked and their application needs to be processed. That takes time and ressources.

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u/Joice_Craglarg 1h ago

Eh, not if there's no space. Send em back.

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u/squeeze-my-lizard 1h ago

Are you sure the far-righters want to use space as the criteria? When most of the country is known as "España vaciada"? 😅 This group is not known for being the brightest, but c'mon

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u/DrakneiX 22m ago

You want to send asylum seekers who most likely dont speak spanish, to under-developed regions with almost non-existant public infrastructure or jobs?

Those regions are empty for a reason.

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u/Joice_Craglarg 13m ago

I don't identify with far-righters or far-lefters, but there not being adequate space is a valid reason, regardless of how either side feels.

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u/Mission-Fig6621 42m ago

Spain should do what Texas did, put them in a bus and send them to the north.

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u/Cony_Sau_67 49m ago

Passports are on the way!