She is committed to continuing to persevere and not lower her guard "so that no one risks their life", stressing that the same line of collaboration with the issuing countries is maintained and has even been intensified, "because the flows have been reduced."
The Government Delegate in the Canary Islands, Carolina Darias, avoided this Thursday making an assessment of the increase in the arrival of boats to the Canary Islands in the last month, during which seven of these boats have arrived in the Archipelago. Darias believes that the migratory phenomenon must be looked at from the perspective of the figures recorded in recent years, where the arrival of irregular immigrants to the island coasts from Africa has slowed down.
Darias is committed to continuing to persevere and not lower her guard "so that no one risks their life", stressing that the same line of collaboration with the issuing countries is maintained and has even been intensified, "because the flows have been reduced."
"We have had difficult years; I remember 2006, with more than 31,000 immigrants arriving on the Canary coasts. If we follow the evolution since that year, in 2007 we are talking about 12,000 arrivals, in 2008 we are talking about nine thousand, in 2009 we are talking about two thousand, and in what so far in 2010 we are talking about 150 people, from January to October," reported Carolina Darias.
The Government Delegate wanted to carefully quantify these data "so that we do not lose perspective." Darias affirms that the Canary Islands has never had these positive data on the reduction of immigrant arrivals and that the months of September, October and November have always been months in which the number of boats has intensified.
"In October of this year, seven boats have arrived. If we compare that there have been 150 people in what we have been in 2010, I think we are talking about reasonable figures," explained Carolina Darias during a visit to Arucas.
The delegate considers that Spain has made a "fantastic management of the migratory flows that come to our country and specifically to the Canary Islands", due to four factors that in her opinion are fundamental: cooperation with the countries of origin and transit; police cooperation; influencing organizations that trafficked human beings; putting the migratory phenomenon on the European agenda; and the effect of repatriations.
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