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Approximately 60 people were aboard the vessel. [1] On the evening of 20 June, the Maritime Safety and Rescue Society (SASEMAR) received a call from the dinghy. A plane departing from the Canaries detected the vessel 70 kilometres (43 mi) off the African coast and 160 kilometres (99 mi) south of the archipelago.
In 2023, some 39,900 migrants travelled to the Canary Islands. [10] Some 19,000 migrants travelled to the Canary Islands in the first half of 2024. [11] In July 2024 an incident off the coast of Mauretania claimed some 90 lives from among a group heading for the Canary Islands. [10]
Operation HERA is a joint maritime operation by the European Union established to manage migration flows and stop irregular migrants along the Western African Route, from the western shores of Africa to the Canary Islands, Spain. The operation was implemented following an increase in migrants arriving at the Canary Islands in 2006.
Italy's island of Lampedusa has also seen more irregular immigration this year, posing a political headache for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who won power in 2022 on promises of reducing arrivals.
An illegal migrant who skipped an immigration hearing after being cut loose at the US-Mexico border has been arrested for allegedly raping a 5-year-old girl on Long Island – and cops believe he ...
Successive waves of Canary Island immigration came to Puerto Rico, and entire villages were formed of relocated islanders. [11] Between 1891 and 1895, Canary immigration to Puerto Rico was officially over 600 immigrants; if unrecorded or concealed immigration were taken into account, the number would be much larger. [12]
The Canary Islands (/ k ... Because of the vast immigration to Venezuela and Cuba during ... Since the 1990s, many illegal migrants have reached the Canary Islands ...
Other well-represented crimes among illegal immigrants known to be living in the US include sexual assault — with 523 convicted or suspected rapists in ICE custody and 20,061 not — and assault ...