Article 5B05V 'This lack of humanity can't go on': Canary Islands struggle with huge rise in migration

'This lack of humanity can't go on': Canary Islands struggle with huge rise in migration

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Eduardo Robaina in ArguineguĂ­n and Sam Jonesin Ma
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Spanish archipelago has received 20,000 migrants and refugees this year, 8,000 in the last month

In the Canary Islands, 2020 will be remembered as more than just the year of the coronavirus.

The streets of Arguineguin, a small town on the island of Gran Canaria, are thronged not with tourists in search of winter warmth, but with police officers, health workers and journalists, all scurrying to and from the crowded dock, which has become the newest symbol of an old phenomenon.

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