Migrants dying in unprecedented numbers on Canary Islands route, NGO says

2 years ago by DolphinMath to c/world

An unprecedented nearly 5,000 migrants have died at sea in the first five months of 2024 trying to reach the Spanish Canary Islands, according to a report released by migration rights group Walking Borders on Wednesday.

Between Jan. 1 and May 31, 4,808 people died on the Atlantic voyage to the Canaries after departing from Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia, making it the deadliest route between Africa and Spain, with 95% of migrant deaths, according to the group.

Arrivals to the archipelago in that period soared five times to over 16,500 from a year ago, Interior Ministry data showed.

jpreston2005 8 points 2 years ago

Climate change driving entire populations to migrate is going to prove disastrous over our lifetime. Already we're seeing voters turn to the far-right in response to rising immigration rates, and I fear it will get worse before it gets better. It's real easy for bad faith politicians to take all the legitimate grievances of the working class, and then blame it all on migrants. We've seen it time and again in the United States, and no matter how often they do it, they still find traction among their voter base.

Just gonna put this here: Immigrants Make Economies More Dynamic, Increase Employment Growth

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whoisearth 4 points 2 years ago

11 years old at this point

https://youtu.be/RK5l_0bm6ko

It's gonna get real scary. Military is watching climate change like a hawk. It's real and what you said is going to lead to insane destabilizing factors we aren't prepared for.

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jpreston2005 1 point 2 years ago

That was incredibly informative and it's age only makes it more horrific.

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Lemming000 -4 points 2 years ago
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nxdefiant 2 points 2 years ago

Senegalese refugees comprise the bulk of the migrants, and all sorts of things like drought and commodity prices (due to the invasion Ukraine among other things) are driving their economy into the ground. In the end, climate change is definitely a non negligible component of the problem which is only going to get worse.

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Wanderer -8 points 2 years ago

They all need to be sent back. If they have no reason for coming over they won't bother and none of them will die.

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FlyingSquid 10 points 2 years ago

They're coming over because the people around them are dying.

Do you really think they'd risk their lives like this for anything less?

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Wanderer -4 points 2 years ago

There are plenty of first hand videos of people talking to people making dangerous crossing and they are doing to because they think they can get money in the new country.

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FlyingSquid 1 point 2 years ago

Anecdotal, but feel free to find one if that's the case.

Then please explain why this is not relevant: https://www.dw.com/...

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Wanderer -4 points 2 years ago

It's quite frequently on the TV.

I'm not saying people aren't displaced around the world. Europe for example has a lot of Ukrainian refugees that should be taken in, legally.

A lot of the illegal migration is for money. If they got sent straight back they would have no reason to make the journey and they wouldn't be at risk of drowning.

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