The Canary Islands have been swarmed by illegal Muslim migrants from Morocco and elsewhere in North Africa. The Islands have become so overwhelmed that “there is an increase of 700% compared to last year” in the number of illegal Muslim migrants who have arrived there.
Even during the coronavirus lockdown, migrants have swarmed also into Greece, Italy, the UK and elsewhere. While all this has been happening, the European Union has been consistently encouraging mass Muslim migration, although it has vowed to reform its migrant policy and scrap the Dublin Agreement, which requires migrants to seek asylum in the first EU member country they enter.
The new “guests” are all too happy to take advantage of the EU’s generosity, including those among the new arrivals who have come in order to advance the hijra. Now even the EU’s Ylva Johansson has admitted that the influx is “unsustainable,” although this assessment is unlikely to bring an end to the EU’s globalist, open-door policies.
“The European Commission sees the rise in the irregular arrival of immigrants to the Canary Islands as ‘unsustainable,’” translated from “La Comisión Europea ve “insostenible” el alza de la llegada irregular de inmigrantes a Canarias,” Euractiv, October 4, 2020:
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) (EuroEFE) – The European Commissioner for the Interior, Ylva Johansson, considers the rate at which the irregular arrival of immigrants to the Spanish islands of the Canary Islands from the Atlantic coasts of Africa to be “unsustainable” and calls for a policy that combines the reception of those who need international protection and the return of the rest.
“In the Canary Islands there is an increase of 700% compared to last year, I think, and that is unsustainable, of course. That is one of the reasons why I traveled to Mauritania with (the Spanish Interior Minister Fernando) Grande-Marlaska, because I believe that more European support is needed to face the situation,” Johansson said in the local press this Sunday.
The Spanish Ministry of the Interior published on Friday its latest count of migrant arrivals to the Canary Islands: as of September 30, 6,081 people in 225 pateras (makeshift boats) since the beginning of the year, six times more than in 2019 (+523%) .
The 700% increase to which Johansson alludes has occurred at certain times of the year. Now the rise has stabilized around 500%, but not because the flow of immigrants has attenuated, but because of a statistical effect when compared to 2019, since two out of every three entries were concentrated in the third quarter of that year.
This Saturday alone, more than a hundred people arrived on the island of Gran Canaria or were located when they were sailing towards it, according to the aid and emergency services.
In an interview published by the newspapers “La Provincia” and “El Día”, the commissioner states that she is informed about what is happening in places like Arguineguín (Gran Canaria), the main port used in the rescue operations of immigrants on the islands.
ONLY WELCOME THOSE WHO NEED ASYLUM
Johansson advocates maintaining the right to asylum, but warns that this also requires the return to the countries of origin of those immigrants who do not need protection, alluding to those who move exclusively for economic reasons.
“To be able to defend the right to asylum,” she says, “to give international protection to those who need it, we must also say, and show our citizens, that those who do not need international protection, those who have a negative review, they must return”.
Otherwise, “it is not possible to really defend the right to asylum and protection,” she argues.
The European commissioner emphasizes that, in fact, her trip with Grande-Marlaska to Mauritania also aimed to reactivate deportations to that country, paralyzed since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Mauritania has had an agreement with Spain for more than a decade by which it accepts the return of any immigrant who arrives in the Canary Islands, regardless of their nationality, if they have left its territory or transited through it.
On this matter, Ylva Johansson points out that she “would like to achieve even closer cooperation between the European Commission, Spain and Mauritania to improve aid, but also the fight against mafias that traffic in people.
“We need migrants, but we also need to have a sustainable way of managing this,” she emphasizes.