New tragedy for refugees near Spain’s Canary Islands

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting Tagus Anseiger newspaper, a boat carrying migrants overturned near the Canary Islands of Spain and dozens of people disappeared. Kilometers south of the Canary Island of El Hierro in the Atlantic Ocean, rescuers began an operation on Monday to find about 50 missing refugees. Spain’s maritime rescue service said one of its helicopters picked up nine people clinging to the overturned boat. They reported to El Hierro, the survivors, that the wooden boat had set off nine days ago with about 60 passengers, and on Saturday it had problems.

The aid organization and Marine rescue could not say how many people were in the boat. The Civil Guard in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the capital of the Canary Island of Tenerife, could not provide more information about the incident.

Efe reported that the migrants came from sub-Saharan countries They were. It was unknown where exactly their journey by sea began. They escape Africa, every year they try to reach Spain by boat. According to the Ministry of Interior, 16,621 migrants have entered Spain by boat from January 1 to April 15 this year. In the same period of last year, the number of these immigrants was 11,681.

Refugees are playing with their lives while seeking refuge in European countries, while the European Union is trying to On the eve of the elections in this region, the plan to reform the asylum rules to intensify the strictures against the asylum seekers should pass the approval of the parliament and thus attract the votes of the citizens.

In the plan to reform the asylum system The European Union, which will soon be voted on in Brussels, the European Parliament, member states and the Commission agreed to toughen their approach to illegal immigrants.

The plan includes, among other things, faster procedures at the EU’s external borders to ensure that migrants without prospects are deported. According to experts, however, the reforms are unlikely to have any effect until the European elections in early June. Immigration, crisis regulations allow people to be held for longer periods of time in asylum centers at foreign borders under prison-like conditions.

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