The migration emergency is continuing in Spain where landings are being reported without interruption. In particular, over the past few hours many have been registered on the Balearic Islands where, according to figures released by the prefecture, over 400 migrants have arrived between Monday and Tuesday (September 2-3).

Nearly 200 people arrived on the archipelago on Monday on several boats. All landings were reported on the islands of Formentera and Ibiza, where migrants were intercepted in small groups on different boats, while a larger group of 101 people, according to official sources, was apprehended by security forces after it had already landed near a small beach in Ibiza called Cala Codolar, in the municipality of Sant Josep.

On Tuesday, 216 people arrived at the Balearic Islands. Some were intercepted at sea near the island of Cabrera, while others reached Mallorca and Formentera.

On the same day, Spanish maritime rescue services conducted two operations to assist migrants off the southeastern coast of the peninsula. In the first operation, 19 people were found at sea and helped to disembark in Almeria. In the second, a group of 15 people was escorted to Alicante.

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Row between president of Canary Islands and cabinet intensifies

Landings have also continued to be reported on the Canary Islands and the situation is becoming increasingly difficult to manage at a local level, in particular as far as minors are concerned who are arriving in great numbers on the archipelago.

In this context, a strongarm between the regional governor and the central cabinet has intensified: "Starting today, the government of the Canary Islands considers the hosting of irregular migrants reaching the archipelago as falling under the jurisdiction of the State," the islands' regional president Fernando Clavijo announced on Monday night (September 2).

"For this reason, it has requested NGOs managing hosting centers on the islands not to receive any migrants without the region's explicit consent," Clavijo was quoted as saying by EFE news agency after a meeting of the local agency dealing with migration.

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Clavijo, who had previously announced he was considering taking the central government to court over its handling of the migrant crisis, clarified that this decision does not mean the region will stop dealing with the humanitarian challenges posed by the ongoing migrant arrivals. Instead, he explained that the local government will assume responsibility for protecting minors, as required by law, but only when resources are available and as a form of "aid" for an issue that falls under the jurisdiction of "the State and Europe."

According to Clavijo, the emergency of the weekend due to the landing of hundreds of migrants on the island of El Hierro "marked a before and after" because the police reported to judicial authorities the alleged resistance of an NGO to hosting seven migrant minors due to the lack of places and space on the archipelago's migrant hosting facilities.

After the procedure was filed, the State attorney's office sent a legal request to the regional government. The governor thus decided to take legal action against the State.

In the months of July and August, over 6,267 migrants landed on the Canary Islands, a record number since monthly migrant flows have been registered.

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Government pledges 35 million euros to host foreign minors

In the wake of the harsh stance taken by the governor, the central cabinet has pledged 35 million euros to deal with the migrant crisis, earmarked to host and assist migrant minors under the care of regions.

"Fifteen million euros will go to the Canary Islands, to Ceuta and Melilla," the three regions most affected by the emergency, said the spokesperson and minister of education and sport, Pilar Allegria, at the end of a government meeting.

"The rest will be divided between the other regions that will voluntarily host underage migrants" who reach the southern border. Allegria recalled that part of the funding was approved in June by the Conference of the regions' presidents for the voluntary transfer of minors from the Canary Islands and the Spanish enclaves in Morocco to other regions of the Spanish peninsula.

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