A first canoe has arrived to the islands with 58 people on board, in addition to two bodies, as confirmed by the emergency services of the Government of the Canary Islands, which attended to those disembarked at the dock. The boat arrived under its own power this Wednesday at Las Galletas, in the municipality of Arona (extreme south of Tenerife).
This was the first boat to arrive at the islands since December 30, after an intense weekend in which 14 boats were rescued with a total of 1,064 migrants on board. The end of the year has reactivated the transfer: between Christmas Day and Monday the 30th, some 2,190 people arrived in the Canary Islands in 34 boats. One of them died during his helicopter transfer to El Hierro airport.
people, 18.3% more than in the same period in 2023. These data meant that last year, in mid-November, it was already the most active exercise on the Canary Islands route in its entire history, surpassing those arriving in 2023, ( 39,910 people). The Ministry of the Interior is expected to give the final figures for arrivals this Thursday. Thus, between 2023 and 2024, more than 85,000 people have landed on the islands, more than in the previous 15 years combined. El Hierro has been, for the second consecutive year, the island to which the most people arrive, unlike the crisis at the beginning of the decade, which focused more on Gran Canaria and Lanzarote.
It has also reactivated political tension in the islands. In an interview on SER, he attacked both the Government and the PP, whom he accused of being “complicit” in maintaining the alert situation in the Canary Islands. “The Government, because it does not intervene having the powers; assured the nationalist leader. According to its figures, the regional Executive already protects 5,800 unaccompanied migrant minors.
On the same Monday, after Clavijo’s words, the PP once again demanded a comprehensive change in the State’s immigration policy. The spokesman for the Popular Parliamentary Group, Miguel Tellado, accused Pedro Sánchez’s Executive of encouraging a “call effect” with a ” goodist speech” and reproaching him for not taking measures “to combat illegal immigration. this more aggressive speech and took advantage of his Christmas speech to ensure that one cannot “look the other way” in the face of this “drama.” “It is very easy to demagogue with immigration. But is there anyone who, faced with this drama, can look the other way? Andalusia serves these people. Of course”.
