The Canary Islands have registered the arrival of more than 1,500 migrants in an irregular situation in one week and have already reached the figure of more than 32,200 entries in 2023. The latest entries occurred this past Thursday, when a cayuco arrived at the port of La Restinga, in El Pinar (El Hierro), with 80 migrants on board and one person deceased, according to sources from 112 Canarias..

This boat was located in the south of the island by a Civil Guard patrol boat and the migrants have been treated at the dock by members of the Canary Islands Emergency Service and the Red Cross.. Likewise, on November 7, two cayucos arrived at the Canary Islands. The first, with 35 migrants, arrived in the waters south of Tenerife, while the second, with 49, required to be transferred to the island hospital..

However, the largest entry of migrants to the Canary Islands in recent days occurred last weekend, when 739 people arrived in El Hierro during the early hours of Saturday aboard four cayucos, including four dead.. In addition, twelve were transferred to the island's hospital, according to 112 Canarias..

Late on Saturday, Salvamento Marítimo rescued a canoe with 106 sub-Saharan migrants when it was sailing about nine miles from Gran Canaria, as reported by Salvamento Marítimo. The health device, made up of the Red Cross and the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC), assisted the occupants and, as reported, it was necessary to transfer three people to health centers for different pathologies..

On the other hand, on Friday, November 3, 188 migrants arrived in two irregular boats to the islands of Gran Canaria and El Hierro.. Thirteen people had to be transferred to various hospitals for different pathologies.. Subsequently, 70 arrived on a new boat to El Hierro and two of them had to be transferred to the hospital due to moderate dehydration..

Furthermore, on the same day, Salvamento Marítimo intercepted a new irregular vessel with 13 sub-Saharan men when they were sailing about six miles from Punta Rasca (Tenerife)..

Finally, last Thursday, 138 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands at the port of Los Cristianos, in the south of Tenerife, and 49 at La Restinga, in El Hierro.. Maritime Rescue also rescued a boat with 34 Maghreb migrants when they were sailing about 13 miles south of the island of Gran Canaria.

Exceeds 2006 figures

This year, the Canary Islands has already surpassed the number of the cayucos crisis, in 2006, when a total of 31,678 people arrived to the Canary archipelago irregularly, since to date it has recorded more than 32,200 arrivals.

According to the balance of the Ministry of the Interior as of October 31, 2023, until that day there were 30,705 migrants who had arrived to the islands, which was 111.2% more than the same figure from the previous year..

In total, 44,404 migrants have arrived in Spain irregularly so far this year, which represents an increase of 57.5% (16,208 more) compared to the same period last year..