The State Attorney General’s Office demands a “coordinated” response against the immigration mafias, which it accuses of also financing drug trafficking and terrorism.
This is stated in the latest report of the State Attorney General’s Office. It shows that illegal immigration has become one of the main problems not only in our country and Europe, but throughout the world.
The prosecution points out how it started in July 2023 a massive arrival of cayucos to the islands of Tenerife and El Hierrowhich spread to all our coasts and represented a real humanitarian crisis. To this day, the influx of immigrants has not stopped.
“The mafias that run illegal immigration have been repeatedly linked to the financing of other criminal behavior, including terrorism and crimes against public health, which requires a coordinated response,” the prosecution said.
This is why “effective criminal prosecution of criminal networks, businessmen, groups and organizations dedicated to promoting illegal immigration for profit is necessary, and this must constitute one of the priority objectives of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, especially when they act in a way that compromises the integrity and lives of migrants.”
This is one of the objectives that the Public Ministry sets for this course. “It is particularly important in the fight against human trafficking networks to strengthen international cooperation mechanisms, because we cannot forget that it is a transnational criminal phenomenon.”
Immigration Concerns
This is one of the issues that most concerns Western countries. In fact, as published by EL ESPAÑOL, NATO has been considering for years establishing a new mission in Africa in the face of the growing threat of phenomena such as jihadist terrorism and illegal immigration mafias. In fact, one of the objectives of the summit held in Madrid is to reach an agreement to strengthen alliances with strategic partners on the continent.
The government’s concern about irregular immigration has increased so much in recent times that it is no longer considered just the third most important risk for the country, according to the latest report from Department of Homeland Security. Moreover, this problem occupies an extensive and important section in the recent National Maritime Security Strategy.
According to the document prepared by Moncloa, Spain is in a geographical situation in which it is vulnerable to “hybrid threats” intended to promote “uncontrolled waves of irregular immigration”.
Similarly, the government has also warned of the threat that Islamist terrorists, as has happened on several occasions, will mix with immigrants on boats heading to Europe.
The Sahel crisis, states the National Strategy against Terrorism 2023, “unfailingly affects the stability of the region and, directly, the national interests of Spain, especially with regard to the terrorist threat and to the increase in irregular migratory flows that can be used by terrorist elements to cover their travels.”
