On 4-7 November, 704 migrants arrived in the Balearic Islands in just four days. The president of the region, Alfonso Rodriguez, has called on the federal government in Madrid to change the laws to allow more transfers to other regions in Spain.
On 5 November, three bodies were found in the Canary Islands. Two bodies of Middle Eastern origin were found at sea by a fisherman, and another was found on board a pirogue drifting off El Hierro. The 131 surviving passengers of the pirogue, including 11 women and five minors, had left Senegal 15 days earlier and were disembarked and taken to the port of La Restinga.
On 1 November, a boat with 150 passengers on board that left Senegal on 21 October for Spain was finally found. AlarmPhone had alerted the Spanish authorities days before, but they refused to carry out the rescue and passed the buck to the Moroccan authorities, who in turn passed the buck to the Senegalese authorities. As a result of this inaction, 28 people died and 37 others were hospitalized.
On 26 October, four people from Nigeria were rescued in Las Palmas after spending nine days at the mercy of the elements on the rudder of a container ship.
On 23 October the Spanish government announced that it would transfer 100 million euros to the Canary Islands by the end of October or the beginning of November to support unaccompanied migrant minors. There are currently around 5200 unaccompanied minors in the Canary Islands, that is why the Canary Islands government is pushing for a change in Spanish immigration law that would allow for the redistribution of minors between the different Spanish territories.
On the 21st of October, a 21-year-old Malian man died in the reception center for migrants in Alcalá de Henares, after having been complaining of pain for several days.
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