The Balearic Islands have already double So far this year, the total number of illegal immigrants arriving on the shores of the Islands is 2,023, with two months left to close the year. Although last year 2,278 people arrived on 276 boats, in 2024 they have already reached 4,694 migrants on board 284 boats.
This is a worrying figure reached at the beginning of November, with two months to close the year. A period in which everything indicates that the avalanche of boats will continue, so the figure compared to 2023 will continue to increase its difference.
Last week there was an avalanche of boats in the Balearic Islands. In just seven days they reached the archipelago 847 illegal immigrants aboard 50 cayucos. Among them, more than 40 are unaccompanied minors who had to be accommodated in mena centers in Majorca which carry saturated for months now.
In August, the Balearic Islands already exceeded the number of boats arriving in the islands this year compared to the whole of 2023. A figure that was reached when there were four months left to close the year. THE upward trend The rest of 2024 continued and last November, 284 boats had already been received in the Islands compared to 276 last year.
In Majorca, the municipalities most affected by this massive and illegal immigration are Campos, Ses Salines and Santanyí, in the south of the island. Last Thursday, the three municipalities governed by the PP shouted “no” to the management of the Government of Pedro Sanchez in this matter.
I believed that with the necessary tranquility we must reflect and take action, the Balearic Islands do not have the capacity to deal with up to 500 people in an irregular situation, in two days, more and more people alive. of the population who must meet them. pic.twitter.com/GfO9UcDdXO
– Catalina Soler (@SolerCatalina) November 6, 2024
Ibiza and Formentera, main destinations for immigrants
We must not forget that the islands of Ibiza and Formentera They are the new favorite destination for boats carrying immigrants arriving on the coasts 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 it was Majorca the Balearic island which concentrated most of the arrivals of cayucos, with a 80 percent of the total. However, this year the arrivals have been distributed differently and now it is Ibiza and Formentera which represent the most 60 percent of total immigrant and boat arrivals.
Faced with this migration crisis, the Minister of Family and Social Affairs of the Balearic Government, Catalina Waxstated that “it is the first time in history that the Balearic Islands are the point in Spain that receives the most boats with people on board, above the Canary Islands”. The advisor popular warned that the islands “We run the risk of becoming the Canary Islands in a few years. Days like yesterday confirm this fear.
