The arrival of men by boat in Majorca continues unstoppably: 100 only in November and 330 throughout the year, so one month from now until the end of 2024, everything indicates that the reception of unaccompanied foreign minors could double last year’s figures while there was a total of 180.
Even if the Minister of the Interior Great Marlaska continue to deny the existence of an increasingly obvious and consolidated route between northern Algeria and Majorca, as she did on November 19 in the Senate, the data on cayuco arrivals in the Balearic Islands They deny the thesis of the socialist government. Furthermore, the refusal to recognize that reality results in a lack of police officers and social resources in addition, to deal with a phenomenon that causes a unprecedented migration crisis in the Islands.
Just in the last 48 hours, The Consell de Mallorca has welcomed 24 new minors who arrive on an island where the nine social centers intended for their attention and care have completely collapsed and where the Delegation of the Government and the Ministry of Defense They are still not responding to the request for assistance and transfer of facilities to accommodate this. unstoppable barrage of minerals.
Today, a month after almost agreeing to transfer the central pavilion from the ancient Inca powder magazine facilities to transform it into a first-rate reception center, the socialist government of Pedro Sanchez It continues to delay its response and the situation in existing centers continues to become tense.
Added to this collapse of reception spaces is the notable disbursement of economic resources that the coalition government of PP and Vox within the Consell de Mallorca is making for the care and maintenance of these minors, and which this year will exceed the 16 million euros.
Already last September the Minister of Social Protection, Guillermo Sanchezwarned that public resources intended to receive menas would not be able to withstand or withstand further pressure and required greater involvement of central government for the care of this population, given that the Consell allocates more than 7,000 euros per month for the reception and care of each of these minors.
But it does not even seem that the socialist government is going to increase its contributions to the Consell governed by PP and Vox, nor that the migration crisis from which the Balearic Islands are suffering will ease in the coming days, given the good weather prevailing in the Mediterranean this week. A calm sea which favors the incessant arrival of boats and with it ever more ore.
In the early hours of Thursday, five boats carrying a total of 71 illegal immigrants were intercepted. In one week, 199 people arrived by canoe if we take into account the 128 who arrived last Wednesday in the Islands.
It is good to remember that The Balearic Islands have already doubled the total number of illegal immigrants this year which reached the shores of the Islands in 2023, with one more month to close the year. Although 2,278 people arrived last year on 276 boats, so far in 2024, more than 5,000 migrants have already arrived.
The islands of Ibiza and Formentera are the new favorite destination for boats carrying immigrants arriving on the shores of the Balearic Islands.
A new trend that confirms, at least in 2024, that there has been a change in the arrival point of boats arriving in the Balearic Islands. Previously, Mallorca was the Balearic island that concentrated most cayuco arrivals, with 80% of the total.
However, this year the arrivals have been distributed differently and now it is Ibiza and Formentera which represent 60% of the total arrivals of immigrants and boats.
