Two boats carrying 117 illegal African migrants reach the Canary Islands
Two boats carrying 117 sub-Saharan African migrants, including about a dozen minors, arrived in Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday, a spokesman for the regional government of the archipelago said.
"They are all in good health," he told AFP by telephone.
The first boat carrying 61 people, six of them minors, reached the popular Fanabe beach on the island of Tenerife in the early hours of Saturday.
The second boat carrying 56 migrants, including seven minors, arrived on the island of Gomera on Saturday afternoon.
The archipelago off the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa has been a magnet in recent years for African migrants aspiring to reach Europe.
Authorities fear many of the thousands of Africans who make the perilous journey towards Spanish soil each year die of thirst, hunger or exposure, but there is no way of knowing exactly how many have perished.
Spain has worked with other European Union nations to increase air and sea patrols and it has signed repatriation agreements with several African nations that have made it easier to send back clandestine migrants.
During the first seven months of this year, 7,165 migrants reached Spain by boat, a 9.1 percent drop over the same period last year, and a 58.9 percent decline over 2006, according to interior ministry figures.
Source: AFP
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I often wonder what life for these people must be like in their native country as so many of them risk their lives and that of their children to come over here, It is not like they are entering Britain where they will get housing, healthcare and whatever they need....here they have to work to survive, even if that does mean illegally.
I often wonder what life for these people must be like in their native country as so many of them risk their lives and that of their children to come over here, It is not like they are entering Britain where they will get housing, healthcare and whatever they need....here they have to work to survive, even if that does mean illegally.
We watched a programme on this 6 months back and they asked these people where they wanted to end up and they all said Britian. So one way or another they will make it to the UK, so many slip through the net.
I feel for them but it is there countries problem not ours
Have you seen a larger number of these people (don't mean to say that in a horrible way but don't no what to call them) in Tenerife and has anything changed since the boats have been arriving, for a couple of years now isn't it?
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yes the numbers here do seem to be increasing especially the looky looky men. San blas on the golf rarely see them as they are chased off rapidly by security and the bar owners. We had a restaurant on the sea front in Fanabe and they were a real pain coming in annoying the customers. We used to chase them out but a few of them became quite abbusive. Also if you are caught with one on the terrace selling the police can find the owner 3000 euro's.....you needed eyes in your bum to watch for them.
yes the numbers here do seem to be increasing especially the looky looky men. San blas on the golf rarely see them as they are chased off rapidly by security and the bar owners. We had a restaurant on the sea front in Fanabe and they were a real pain coming in annoying the customers. We used to chase them out but a few of them became quite abbusive. Also if you are caught with one on the terrace selling the police can find the owner 3000 euro's.....you needed eyes in your bum to watch for them.
What about the crime rate?
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we didnt see much trouble down in the area we were, the main crime was pickpockets in the busy times and these were mainly canarian. We had to watch for them taking handbags off chairs, a favourite was for one of them to walk in to ask someone at the table for a light for their cigarette and run out with their bag, thankfully it didnt happen to us as if they came in we stood at the exits to make sure they could not get out without a fight. There were a few well known ones in the area and security used to watch them or tell them to go away. I can remember the first time we visited the island....we hired a car and the company told us never to lock our car but also never leave anything in it. Most car crimes were opportunist thieves taking what they could see on show to feed drug habbits.
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