Tensions rise over housing of migrants on Spanish islands
Associated PressBARCELONA, Spain — A row over where to house African migrants increasingly arriving by boat on Spain’s Canary Islands deepened Thursday, when the mayor of the most affected town urged the Spanish government to transfer them out of local hotels. Onalia Bueno, mayor of Mogán in Gran Canaria island, said the government should remove 3,471 migrants, including unaccompanied minors, from 10 hotels in her area by the year’s end, when hoteliers’ contracts expire, and take them to government facilities, including in the mainland. Jalloul said the government has some 7,000 temporary spots for migrants and asylum seekers on the archipelago, including 6,000 in hotels. Spain, Italy, Malta and Greece, Europe’s main sea entry points for migrants and asylum seekers, have expressed concern that new proposals to revamp the EU’s asylum system would continue to leave them to cope with the challenge alone.
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