The Government expands "resources" in the face of the immigration emergency in the Canary Islands: it sends one more rescue patrol and enables more places and transfers to the Peninsula

The Government has approved to expand resources to face the migration emergency in the Canary Islands after the arrival of thousands of immigrants in dozens of cayucos to El Hierro.

The measures involve transferring one more rescue patrol to El Hierro and the provision of more places in state-owned centers and transfers between islands and to the Peninsula.

These are some of the measures that have been adopted this Tuesday in the Interministerial Commission on Immigration, in which the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo of El Hierro have been present.

The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, explained this Tuesday that almost 7,500 migrants have arrived in the archipelago in the last ten days, announcing different agreements with the central government on this matter, which include health and police reinforcement and aid worth approximately one million euros for the most affected economic sectors in La Restinga, on the island of El Hierro.

This is how the Canary Islands president spoke at a press conference from the headquarters of the Government of the Canary Islands in Madrid after participating in the extraordinary Interministerial Commission on Immigration on the pressure that the island of El Hierro is experiencing. He also held a bilateral meeting with the ambassador of Senegal in Spain, Ibrahim Al Khalil Seck.

As explained by Clavijo, the central government has attributed the migratory surge in the archipelago to the holding of sports competitions in Senegal, which have caused a greater police increase in this event, and which will take place until November 13, while in Gambia they attribute it to the start of the electoral campaign.