Canary Islands Ask For Spanish Navy To Shield Coast (from huge illegal alien invasion)

EFE News ^ | 22 May 2006 | Staff

[Bangupjob]

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, May 22 (EFE).- The local government of Spain's Canary Islands on Monday requested economic aid from the European Union and the intervention of the Spanish navy to stop a wave of boat-borne undocumented immigrants from West Africa.

The regional parliament on Monday held a plenary session to discuss the crisis confronting the archipelago for the past two weeks due to the arrival of some 2,000 immigrants, a wave that has swamped the local centers set up to temporarily house migrants, as well as the centers providing them with medical care and other assistance.

The autonomonous government on Monday demanded that Madrid deploy the Spanish navy to shield the archipelago from additional immigrant inflows, and it asked the EU to set up an emergency fund to deal with the "humanitarian crisis resulting from the immigration avalanche."

According to a proposal approved in the regional legislature, the objective of the "shielding" of the coasts is to "aid, attend and provide humanitarian assistance, and to return the illegals to the port from which they departed" on their journey to Spanish territory.

The local legislature also asked for the creation of a joint plan of action between Spain and the EU which would include repatriation accords with the immigrants' countries of origin.

[Bangupjob]

Welcome to the Club, Canaries. Good luck trying to reason with "Senor Capitulation" Zapatero. If he caves in to even Bin Laden and the ETA terrorists, you can imagine what he will be like in the face of an army of illegal aliens. There is a reason they are coming, flooding the Canaries, now.

[kellynla]

Spanish Navy?

Are the Nina, Pinta & Santa Maria still afloat? LOL

[kinoxi]

crocs with lasers on their heads :) it's the only way

[NewRomeTacitus]

A loony soldier decided to vacation at the Canaries back in 1985 and came back crying that it was the most boring place in the world. It seems that the canaries themselves were off-migrating elsewere at the time. Todd Mehrige was unstable and had to be restrained often due to an open relationship with Martinis. Christian from Lebanon with a genuine soul who had endless stories about the inhumanity of Islam. I often wonder how he made out.

[Poundstone]

Subsurface mines. That'll do the trick.

[I see my hands]

Good question. What ever became of those ships?

[BlazingArizona]

The local government of Spain's Canary Islands on Monday requested economic aid from the European Union and the intervention of the Spanish navy to stop a wave of boat-borne undocumented immigrants from West Africa.

Dear Spain,

To commemorate your illegal alien invasion and the recent anniversary of your chickening out on the war against terrorism, the people of this state hereby present you with a full-grown saguaro. Bend over, please, so we can plant it.

[BlazingArizona]

A loony soldier decided to vacation at the Canaries back in 1985 and came back crying that it was the most boring place in the world. It seems that the canaries themselves were off-migrating elsewere at the time.

That's because the islands are not named after any bird. They are named after dogs.

[burzum]

I don't know what happened to the Pinta, but the wikipedia articles state that the Santa María ran aground off Haiti and was lost, and the Niña made a trading voyage to the Pearl Coast in 1501 after which there is no further log of her.

[I see my hands]

Thanks!

D'oh! I could have looked myself. It's surprising how often I forget that everything I wonder about is under 10 clicks and 20 keystrokes away.