Archive for the 'Immigration' Category

Pictures of yesterdays tragedy

Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Here you can see the covered bodies of immigrants after their death was certified and several agents of the 'Guardia Civil', two of them recovering a body from the waterat the 'Risco Verde' beach in Agüimes. You can also see the half sunk 'patera' and it being pulled out of the water later on and the enormous efforts done supported by the rescue helicopter and the sea rescue patrol boat. Really sad images that immigration gives us almost every day. :( ...
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Worse than immigration

Friday, September 7th, 2007
If the immigration for itself, wasn't hard enough, as people give up all their savings for just an opportunity to make it alive to a 1st world country, to try for a better life, risking their lives and normaly resulting in an almost certain repatriation, things like this unluckily happen more often every time. The tragedy happened yesterday at daybreak when a 'patera', those small, unstable boats, subsaharian immigrants use to get here from Africa, arrived at the 'risco verde' beach in Agüimes at darkness, or at least that is what the occupants thought. What really happened is that they docked to an underwater rock formation, 20 meters off shore, which the immigrants thought to be the beach, but which in reality was surrounded by 2 meters(6 feet) of water, causing 10 of the 16 immigrants to drown. The Chief of the 'GEAS', the special group for scuba activities from the 'Guardia ...
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Immigration continues

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
I read in a newspaper article this morning, that the 'central government' (those 'fellas' sitting in Madrid) "is prepared for the massive arrival of irregular immigrants". I'm not an expert but I think I'll allow myself a little bit of a constructive critic... What the hell does this supposed to mean?? They are prepared to do all the "hard paperwork" ??? They have every thought organized and know what form to grab for and where to sign it when immigrants arrive? C'mon guys!! What about all the people that work hard on a patrol boat freezing their asses up on rough sea. Those 'fellas' from sea rescue and the red cross and other voluteers, that see nothing but desperation of surviving or the hope of a new life in those poor peoples eyes when they arrive or try not to drown while being recued. Those people should be honored and rewarded. So, with all do respect, ...
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