More than 1,500 migrants arrive this weekend in the Canary Islands in a new crisis in the Atlantic route.
More than 1,500 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands this weekend, in an intense sequence of rescue operations that placed El Hierro at the center of immigration pressure. At least 1,488 people were rescued on Saturday alone, a figure that later rose to 1,580 according to updated tallies, in the largest day of arrivals recorded in the recent history of the Atlantic route. The recovery once again puts the absorption resources of the archipelago to the test and increases the pressure on the Spanish government to strengthen its response.