
The authorities reinforce referral services and the central government calls an emergency meeting
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El Hierro faces unusual migratory pressure for its small population of 10,000 inhabitants. The Cabildo has declared a social emergency due to the impact on public services.
A new canoe with 215 people, including ten women and four minors, has been assisted in the last few hours by Salvamento Marítimo until its arrival and disembarkation at the La Restinga dock, in El Hierro. After receiving a notice from the integrated external surveillance system (SIVE) of the Civil Guard, Salvamento mobilized the Salvamar Diphda, which located the canoe about nine miles from La Restinga. After escorting him to the dock, she was helped by Salvamar Navia, Efe reports from public agency sources.
On Saturday, Salvamento participated in the rescue or assistance of more than 700 people who were aboard precarious boats, all in El Hierro except one inflatable in Lanzarote. In parallel, around a thousand migrants were transferred on ferries to Tenerife.
As Efe has learned from emergency device sources, starting next week there will be two daily frequencies of special ferry services to continue with the referrals, both to Tenerife and from the latter island to Gran Canaria.
The Cabildo of El Hierro, an island whose population is around 10,000 inhabitants, has decreed a social emergency due to the pressure that this migratory surge is putting on public services.
Its president, Alpidio Armas, as well as the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, will attend in an extraordinary manner the meeting of the Interministerial Commission on Immigration that will be held next Tuesday by the Government at the Palacio de La Moncloa. The ministers of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, will participate in it; of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares; Inside; Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, Elma Saiz; Work and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz; Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduy; and Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego.
The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has also reported that the president of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has committed to him to strengthen health services in El Hierro through the Secretary of State for Migration.
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Meeting of the Interministerial Immigration Commission next Tuesday.
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