Over 6,000 migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands this summer

Over 6,000 migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands in July and August, reported BNR. Spanish authorities note that this is a record for the summer period since detailed statistics of illegal arrivals have been kept.

6,267 people came illegally to the archipelago in the last two months.
Almost half of them - 3220 new cases were registered in the second half of August. This is according to the data of the Ministry of the Interior of Spain.

This is a record of the migrant flow to the Canary Islands in July and August for the years after 2019, in which there is a gradual increase. Last year, 4,200 migrants arrived, the previous two years there were about two thousand.

This year, over 25,000 migrants reached the archipelago, an increase of 123% compared to the first eight months of 2023. The total number of illegal arrivals in Spain until August 31 is over 35 thousand people.