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Spain: EU official admits 700% rise in Muslim migrants to Canary Islands is ‘unsustainable’

Oct 11, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams 21 Comments

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.

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  1. Frank Anderson says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 8:26 am

    They are not migrants or refugees. They are invaders coming for the stated goal of conquest and occupation.

    Reply
    • mortimer says

      Oct 11, 2020 at 9:29 am

      The Spaniards have forgotten the great hardships caused by the first Islamic invasion of Spain.

      Why repeat that? Jihadists have often stated their goal of re-creating the empire of Cordoba.

      “The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain” by Darío Fernández-Morera, ISI Books, 376 pp., $29.95

      Reply
  2. Templer says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 8:38 am

    These Islamic invaders must be deported back to there own islamic shite wholes the will macke Spain the cannery ilandthe same a uliveble shit whole were ever muslims go they only bring destroy we’re ever they invade no good for mankind

    Reply
    • mortimer says

      Oct 11, 2020 at 9:30 am

      Sharia law only cares for the well-being of Muslims.

      Reply
      • Keith O says

        Oct 11, 2020 at 5:36 pm

        Mortimer, Sharia law is only an extension of the problem. The whole attitude of subjugation that is Islam’s guiding principle is the problem.

        Reply
  3. Michael Copeland says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 9:00 am

    “We need migrants”, said Ylva Johansson.
    This EU view is not shared by the populations of the member states.

    Reply
  4. Khushi says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 9:02 am

    In 2015, EU signed the death warrant of law abiding and hard working EU residents. Some of them realise this and are protesting the EU’s policy of filling up their country with muslim freeloaders, but most are too brainwashed to understand this. The brainwashed people are the ones standing with banners stating: “Refugees welcome. They are not dangerous; they are in danger” Compassion towards the enemy leads to extreme self-harm.

    Reply
  5. mortimer says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 9:32 am

    Muslims should get ‘protection’ in other Muslim countries.

    Reply
    • Keith O says

      Oct 11, 2020 at 5:42 pm

      Yeah, right, you try sending them there and they dodge it like Politian’s dodging a 60 minutes film crew!

      Reply
  6. Jesper Kraul Jensen says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 9:33 am

    ““We need migrants” ..
    Yes, but only non-muslims.
    We need a Fort Europe, forcing the boats to return. And lifetime imprisoning of the smugglers. A muslim can seek asylum in another islamic shithole country, were they can cultivate their religion of death and suppression of infidels.

    Reply
  7. Matt says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 11:01 am

    Coudenhove-Kalergi plan continues as the naive finally start to wonder.

    Reply
  8. Glenwood Jarman says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 1:01 pm

    “We need migrants, but we also need to have a sustainable way of managing this,” Can Ylva Johansson provide one reason why the EU or any nation in the West needs even one of these worthless creatures? She has not yet and I doubt if she ever will. Unlike the Jews, Irish, eastern European, those from the far East and Cuba and Haiti who migrated to the west and prospered on their own rather than complain about the people of the countries that welcomed them. Some like the Cubans were true refugees fleeing from a repressive regime. This has not occurred with the Muslims except for a few who have worked hard have actually been successful.

    Reply
  9. john smith says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 3:10 pm

    islam is like a deadly virus, when a virus first enters a body it goes unnoticed, and there is little or no resistance to it.
    When muslims first enter a country they go unnoticed, and there is little or no resistance towards them.
    When the virus starts to multiply, it attacks the cells of the body it is invading, therefore the body has to fight back by producing more and more antibodies.
    When muslims start to multiply, they attack the people of the country they are invading, so we the people of that country have to fight back.
    We are the antibodies, and it is our duty to produce more and more of us, this can only be done by educating others of the true nature of islam.
    Four hundred years ago the people of Spain built up a resistance to this islamic virus, and expelled all the muslims, they were eventually immuned. However over the centuries this immunity has been lost, and once again they are allowing this islamic virus to invade them.

    Reply
  10. Keith O says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 5:58 pm

    We can all have our ideas about what to do about the Islamic invasion of the western world and the plans they have for world domination. BUT, until we have leaders who refuse to cowtow to the globalist manipulators who are bringing all this destruction down upon us and stand up for the civilized world, we will be screwed!
    After all, it wasn’t a more advanced civilization that brought down the Roman empire. It was the barbarians!

    Reply
    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 11, 2020 at 6:42 pm

      Keith O says,

      “…it wasn’t a more advanced civilization that brought down the Roman empire. It was the barbarians!”

      Good point.

      A country can get very “soft” if they have enjoyed a very high standard of living for decades upon decades and have not been militarily challenged.

      Sweden is a good example…

      Reply
  11. sidney penny says

    Oct 12, 2020 at 12:01 am

    Ask yourself would EU’s Ylva Johansson want illegal Muslim “migrants” living next to her?

    Reply
  12. SKA says

    Oct 12, 2020 at 9:24 am

    Odd historical fact about the Caranies: When the Governor-General of the Canary Islands, Francisco Franco, began his revolt against the communist-dominated Spanish Republic he justified his rebellion in the name of protecting Christianity and Western Civilization. However a large portion of the troops originally serving under him were Muslim troops from Spanish Morocco. One of the ironies if history.

    Reply
    • SKA says

      Oct 12, 2020 at 9:25 am

      Canaries*

      Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Oct 13, 2020 at 12:06 am

      Interesting.

      Reply
  13. TheNicheActress says

    Oct 12, 2020 at 5:04 pm

    http://www.infomigrants.net/en/ is an interesting read. Europe has had enough and the tide is turning against these international panhandlers.

    Reply
  14. gravenimage says

    Oct 13, 2020 at 12:07 am

    Spain: EU official admits 700% rise in Muslim migrants to Canary Islands is ‘unsustainable’
    …………….

    This is an understatement.

    Reply

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