{"id":322206,"date":"2017-08-18T12:26:56","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T11:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/europe-migrant-crisis-reaches-spain\/"},"modified":"2017-08-18T12:26:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T11:26:56","slug":"europe-migrant-crisis-reaches-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/europe-migrant-crisis-reaches-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe: Migrant Crisis Reaches Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soeren Kern<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/10840\/spain-migrant-crisis\"><br \/>The Gatestone Institute<\/a><br \/>August 17, 2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe biggest migration movements are still ahead: Africa\u2019s population will double in the next decades. A country like Egypt will grow to 100 million people, Nigeria to 400 million. In our digital age with the internet and mobile phones, everyone knows about our prosperity and lifestyle.\u201d \u2014 German Development Minister Gerd M\u00fcller.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>\u201cYoung people all have cellphones and they can see what\u2019s happening in other parts of the world, and that acts as a magnet.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u2014 Michael M\u00f8ller, Director of the United Nations office in Geneva.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIf we do not manage to solve the central problems in African countries, ten, 20 or even 30 million immigrants will arrive in the European Union within the next ten years.\u201d \u2014 Antonio Tajani, President of the European Parliament.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Spain is on track to overtake Greece as the second-biggest gateway for migrants entering Europe by sea.<\/strong>\u00a0The sudden surge in migration to Spain comes amid a crackdown on human smuggling along the Libya-Italy sea route, currently the main migrant point of entry to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The westward shift in migration routes from Greece and Italy implies that\u00a0<strong>Spain, situated only ten miles from Africa by sea, may soon find itself at the center of Europe\u2019s migration crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/08\/14\/20170816_migrant.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/08\/14\/20170816_migrant.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More than 8,300 illegal migrants have reached Spanish shores during the first seven months of 2017 \u2014 three times as many as in all of 2016,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/migration.iom.int\/europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Infographic: Refugee Arrivals in the Mediterranean in Perspective | Statista\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/10327\/migrant-sea-arrivals-across-the-mediterranean\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/infographic.statista.com\/normal\/chartoftheday_10327_migrant_sea_arrivals_across_the_mediterranean_n.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic: Refugee Arrivals in the Mediterranean in Perspective | Statista\" width=\"639\" height=\"455\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more statistics at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thousands more migrants have entered Spain by land, primarily at the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the north coast of Morocco, the European Union\u2019s only land borders with Africa. Once there, migrants are housed in temporary shelters and then moved to the Spanish mainland, from where many continue on to other parts of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>In all, some 12,000 migrants&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/europe-migrant-crisis-reaches-spain.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soeren KernThe Gatestone InstituteAugust 17, 2017 \u201cThe biggest migration movements are still ahead: Africa\u2019s population will double in the next decades. A country like Egypt will grow to 100 million people, Nigeria to 400 million. In our digital age with the internet and mobile phones, everyone knows about our prosperity and lifestyle.\u201d \u2014 German Development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-322206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}