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article_detailDate Published: 25/11/2020ARCHIVED ARTICLEARCHIVED - Three boatloads of irregular migrants intercepted off the Cartagena coastline
Image Archive: Cruz Roja
On the same day, police evicted around 50 migrants from a make-shift encampment in Murcia city
The flow of small boats (pateras) containing irregular migrants trying to enter Spain illegally via the Murcian coastline has slowed down considerably in the last couple of weeks, but the occasional boats are still appearing from time to time.
In the last 24 hours three small boats have been intercepted in Murcian waters, one in the middle of the night on Tuesday and two more on Wednesday, reaching Monte de las Cenizas, Cabo de Palos and Cabo Tiñoso.
The first was located around midnight on Tuesday, 11.5 nautical miles south of Monte de las Cenizas, in Cartagena, with ten men, two women and a minor on board.
On Wednesday a second boat made landfall around six in the morning in Cabo de Palos, with 11 people on board. The third was intercepted one mile from Cabo Tiñoso, also in Cartagena, with 15 occupants.All of those intercepted are of Algerian nationality, so are classed as economic migrants, (not refugees) and attempts will be made to repatriate them to their country of origin. Only the minor will be permitted to stay in Spain and will be sent to a centre for minors where the Spanish authorities must assume the cost of raising the young person until they reach 16.
All those who arrived appeared to be healthy, but were transferred to the Escombreras docks area where a temporary encampment run by Cruz Roja is located. At the moment, covid testing is mandatory for anyone arriving illegally in Spain via these small boats and should one occupant of a boat give a positive test, then all of those who arrived in the same boat must quarantine.
The endless flow of migrants illegally entering Spain in this fashion has been causing considerable problems in the Canary Islands recently, where resources are limited to cope with the stream of boats arriving on the islands. Last week there was major controversy when over 200 migrants were turned out of a camp designed to hold 400 people which was packed with nearly 2,500 people, some of them with covid, following a major block of arrivals the previous weekend, as conditions were unsanitary and police were worried that incidents were blowing up due to the overcrowded conditions. In the end, the local council had to house the migrants in holiday accommodation and since then arguments have been underway about how to deal with the huge volume of individuals. The national government is unwilling to transfer them to the mainland, believing that this will encourage thousands more to make the same journey.
An indication of how difficult it is for the authorities to deal with these situations was clearly illustrated on Tuesday when more than 50 irregular migrants were evicted from a building in the barrio de san Pío in Murcia City. The migrants had been living in squalid conditions in a makeshift camp inside the semi-constructed building and were removed from the site after a judicial order was obtained by the owner of the property to dislodge them. On previous occasions encampments have been dismantled on patches of waste land on the outskirts of the city. Although there were no arrests or disturbances, the migrants were reluctant to be moved, shouting, “there’s no help in this country.”
Many of the Algerians who reach Spain have no intention of remaining here and continue their journey to France, some trying to get to the UK and others heading for areas where there are encampments of those trying to reach the UK, or to areas where there is a large legal population of Algerians. (France and Belgium are popular destinations as French is spoken in Algeria). This week there was an unpleasant disturbance in central Paris when police dislodged hundreds of migrants who had pitched tents in central Paris after an encampment to the north of the city was broken up.
Algeria and Morocco, which account for the majority of migrants currently making the journey to Spain at the moment, are not EU members, so their residents have no automatic right of entry to Spain or any other European nation, hence the use of the words irregular or illegal. Most enter Spain without any identification documentation, as this would enable the authorities to repatriate them, so are unable to gain legal residence or obtain legal work.
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