The passivity of globalist politicians toward the Muslim migrant influx via the Canary Islands and also via the English Channel is evident. Meanwhile, taxpayers are expected to absorb the cost, including the financial expenses as well as the dangers of rising crime and jihad. Any “leak” found by illegals from Africa and the Middle East is considered to be an opportunity, an entry point into Europe. The Canary Island crisis will see migrants disappear into mainland Europe, which is the goal to begin with. Meanwhile, the media globalists focus on the danger of the routes, which is a real problem. However, if this is truly their concern, then that is all the more reason to police those routes adequately, as well as to prevent migrants from leaving in the first place. Concerns for migrant safety and not for the wellbeing of EU citizens have been used to assist the recent entry of tens of thousands of illegal Muslim migrants into Europe, and this has gone on for years. Since 2015, that number is in the millions.
“A Migrant Crisis in the Canary Islands Tests Spain’s Leftist Government,” by Malia Politzer, World Politics Review, February 2, 2021:
GRANADA, Spain—In the Canary Islands, off the coast of Morocco, the coronavirus pandemic isn’t the only crisis that 2020 will be known for. Over the course of the year, more than 23,000 migrants arrived in the Spanish archipelago by boat from Africa—8,000 of them in November alone—while some 500 died attempting the journey.
The images of thousands of migrants stranded on beaches with no place to go evoked inevitable comparisons to another crisis, in 2006, when a total of 34,000 people landed on the archipelago in small wooden boats known as cayucos.
African migrants are being pushed toward this dangerous Atlantic route into the European Union mainly due to tougher immigration policies by countries on the Mediterranean like Italy and Greece. Some analysts also suspect that Morocco is loosening its migration controls in order to pressure Spain in an ongoing dispute between the two countries over undersea deposits of tellurium—a rare, extremely valuable mineral used to make solar panels and conductors for mobile devices—near the Canary Islands.
“Morocco has always used immigration as a point of diplomacy with Spain,” said Josep Buades Fuster, the Seville-based director of the Jesuit Migrant Services, a religious organization that advocates for the rights of migrants in Spain. “This is of course speculation, but it doesn’t surprise me that at the same time Morocco is negotiating with Spain over which country controls the territory where these minerals are found, we are suddenly seeing [Morocco] exerting less control over migration.”
Managing a migrant crisis is a challenging task during the best of times—let alone in the middle of a global pandemic. Even so, analysts and NGOs say Spain’s coalition government, led by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of the Socialist Party, should have done better. In the absence of any coordinated government leadership, volunteers, NGOs and local church groups were forced to improvise, housing migrants in youth hostels, sports facilities and even industrial warehouses, according to a dispatch published in the leading Spanish newspaper, El Pais, last year.
“The government response was too slow and too late, and very poorly coordinated between the different responsible ministries,” said Juan Carlos Lorenzo de Armas, the coordinator for the Canary Islands at the nonprofit Spanish Commission for Refugees, or CEAR. “It was defined by disorganization.”
Some analysts attribute the disorganization in part to the fact that the Ministry of the Interior—which is mainly responsible for public security and border enforcement—was put in charge of coordinating the response to the crisis, rather than the Ministry of Inclusion, which develops immigration policies and oversees migrant reception, asylum processes and immigration.
“The fact that the [Ministry of Interior] headed this issue indicates that it’s being seen through the lens of security, rather than treated as a humanitarian crisis,” said Gemma Pinyol, the head of migration policies and diversity at Instrategies, a Barcelona-based think tank.
With the exception of the most vulnerable groups—for example, women with small children, or people with preexisting medical conditions—the Ministry of Interior has blocked migrants from being transferred to mainland Spain, causing a growing bottleneck in the Canaries and overcrowding in its under-resourced reception centers. This is in stark contrast to the response to what was known as the Cayuco boat crisis in 2006, which was led by the Ministry of Inclusion. At the time, the government prioritized a quick and orderly transfer of migrants to reception centers in better-resourced municipalities on the mainland, in order to relieve pressure on the islands….
Will Tyson says
And this stupid Spanish woman was praising the Islamic reconquest of Spain the other day, mentally ill Spanish women want Islam to take over
gravenimage says
Was this a Muslimah or a self-hating Westerner, Will?
Will Tyson says
Self-hating Female Spaniard
https://mobile.twitter.com/TarekFatah/status/1357217404678508549
gravenimage says
What a fool. Thanks for that link.
gravenimage says
Jihad Watch is covering this story here:
“Spain: Leftist politician praises Islamic al-Andalus, accuses Spanish monarchy of ‘genocide’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/02/spain-leftist-politician-praises-islamic-al-andalus-accuses-spanish-monarchy-of-genocide
Michael Copeland says
The EU said Europe NEEDS 50 million Africans.
gravenimage says
Suicidal insanity. Besides everything else, they are costing us a fortune.
BobL says
I’m glad that I’m 90 and not likely to be around to see Islam taking over, the result of politicos who’ve never read the Koran!
gravenimage says
Please don’t preach surrender here. Many of us are working to oppose this.
Eleanor says
This is a war, an invasion without weapons, so the only way to turn it around is for the countries affected to threaten the use of weapons, and mean it. Too bad what the UN or the EU think. Let them know you mean business, otherwise you are doomed.
gravenimage says
Actually, lots of Jihadists also have weapons.
But I take your point–it is an undeclared war.
Rob Porter says
Michael Copeland – 50 million? What for? So they can make as big a mess of Europe as they’ve made of Africa? They don’t invent anything, destroy quite well, so why would the idiotic E.U. want them? .
gravenimage says
Michael Copeland is being sarcastic, Rob.
Chrissie01 says
They treat thousand-year-old European cultures and the real diversity that Europe was as a disposable goods.
They are irreplacable. Like the Buddhas in Afghanistan.
gravenimage says
+1
DavidR says
With Democrats fully in charge of the U.S. now we will not be seeing pictures of dead toddlers on the beach. The loudest silent agreement between the current U.S. administration and the global media is moving along fairly well, much faster than, say, humanitarian aid following a natural disaster.
tim gallagher says
The Muslim invasion goes on and on. The European countries have got to reach the point where they all say, (as the sensible Hungarians and other Visegrad bloc countries have said), nope, we’re not taking any Muslims. Don’t waste your time trying to invade with your barbaric rubbish ideology because you are not getting in, otherwise this Muslim invasion will just keep rolling on.
Checkm Burry says
Ill vote for that. We have a virus killing many, but letting in another virus which wants to kill all.
tim gallagher says
Yeah, it’s the only answer isn’t it, Check Burry. Until the European countries get really tough and slam the door on Muslims, the invasion by these Muslims (and I agree with you that islam is just like a dangerous virus) will go on and on.
Check Burry says
So true.
Infidel says
I don’t blame Morocco for relaxing control if Spain is stupid enough to let in people that it drove out some 500 years ago. They’ll have only themselves to blame if one day Morocco claims the Canary islands as theirs
gravenimage says
Infidel, as you know they want all of Spain.
gravenimage says
Spain: 23,000 migrants arrive in Canary Islands in a year, Morocco may be deliberately loosening migration controls
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This woud not surprise me about Morocco at all. Most Muslim countries are enabling the Muslim invasion of the West.
Infidel says
Is it really their fault if western countries, like Spain in this case, are stupid enough to leave their doors open?
gravenimage says
This is like asking if thieves are wrong if victims leave their doors unlocked or leave their laptops unattendeded. It is still wrong. But savvy people still guard against them–exactly what so much of Dar-al-Harb is *not* doing right now.
Aastra says
west couldnt handle few immigrants yet they have the audacity to lecture India on diversity. which always has been a diverse country.
gravenimage says
Muslims are flooding into the West in the millions. These are not a “few” immigrants.
Aastra says
not millions may be few thousands. millions is the case for india. yet that few thousands were banned/stoped but demand India to accept millions unconditionally. thats the hypocrisy of west.
gravenimage says
There are about 37 million Muslims in Europe, and most of them are recent migrants. The claim that the don’t exist is jusst ludicrous.
Then, I don’t see the West demanding that India take in Muslim migrants–most of them are not heading to India, in any case. But if any in the West are indeed demanding that India take in more Muslims, then I condemn that
jon says
does anybody know if migrants are reaching majorca,or menorca? would they take them if they did land?
gravenimage says
Sadly so, Jon:
“Spain invites stranded migrants to disembark in Majorca or Menorca”
https://www.dw.com/en/spain-invites-stranded-migrants-to-disembark-in-majorca-or-menorca/a-50069749
Check Burry says
More holiday destinations now a threat, a danger to visit.
Peter Carroll says
When Fidel Castro was alive, America was hit with a sudden surge of people, “escaping”, from Cuba. The US couldn’t work out what was happening. Were the Cuban coast guard asleep?
Only when a Cuban who’d been living in Florida for years, watched the news and recognised one of the “escapees”. was the truth revealed. He was a convicted murderer who should still be serving a long sentence.
When the US authorities started checking, they found that Castro had emptied his jails of all but his political prisoners, and was quietly exporting Cuba’s criminal element to the US.