2024-08-07
8 分钟The Economist Hi, Jason Palmer here.
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They move stiffly on weak legs
as they leave the bus and enter the fenced-off temporary centre on El Hierro,
one of the Canary Islands.
Spanish police register each one,
reading the number of a wristband they were given at the port,
calling out, U8 adult female, U3 minor male.
Then come the men who make up the vast majority.
Of the 145 arrivals on that day's boat, eight are women and three children.
Nearly all are Sub-Saharan Africans.
They are lucky.
No one is seriously ill.
No one has given birth at sea, as someone the week before had.
and they all survived.
This year, more than 5,000 migrants have died trying to reach Spain,
mostly en route from Western Africa to the Canaries,