Nearly 7,500 migrants storm Spain's Canary Islands in November leaving rescue boats 'overwhelmed'

Only from the 1st to the 10th of November have they arrived about 7,500 people in Canarias, specifically 7,432 people. It's not because we didn't warn you, we told you, We had the information regarding the activation of the Atlantic route, We had the information on the intensity with which this flow was going to come Unfortunately, it had to happen for measures to be taken. In the matter of maritime salvage, we were overwhelmed. Of the five patrol boats that the government has Another one is going to leave from Spain, which will give us three in the Canary Islands, with the increase and reinforcement of personnel. It's many hours, many consecutive days, the ones the coastguard personnel had to... It even has to withstand, And we understood that such reinforcement was necessary for the workers' own safety and for the safety of the rescue operation itself the trailer that sometimes has to be celebrated. We agreed that the need was for Frontex be deployed in the countries of origin. Right now, the pateras are arriving and the canoes mainly from Senegal and Gambia, Well, that's going to require... A further period of negotiation and time will not be so immediate, but evidently it is necessary that the European Union and that the government of Spain Request the development and the deployment of Frontex along the African coast, Where those tasks can actually be carried out research to dismantle the mafia organizations.