{"id":6816,"date":"2017-08-16T01:50:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T00:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6816"},"modified":"2017-08-18T01:57:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T00:57:33","slug":"europe-migrant-crisis-reaches-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2017\/08\/16\/europe-migrant-crisis-reaches-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe: Migrant Crisis Reaches Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2017\/08\/16\/europe-migrant-crisis-reaches-spain\/melilla-migrants\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6817\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6817\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/melilla-migrants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/melilla-migrants.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/melilla-migrants-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Spain is on track to overtake Greece as the second-biggest gateway for migrants entering Europe by sea.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Europe: Migrant Crisis Reaches Spain<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/10840\/spain-migrant-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | August 16, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Spain is on track to overtake Greece as the second-biggest gateway for migrants entering Europe by sea. The sudden surge in migration to Spain comes amid a crackdown on human smuggling along the Libya-Italy sea route, currently the main migrant point of entry to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The westward shift in migration routes from Greece and Italy implies that Spain, situated only ten miles from Africa by sea, may soon find itself at the center of Europe\u2019s migration crisis.<\/p>\n<p>More than 8,300 illegal migrants have reached Spanish shores during the first seven months of 2017 \u2014 three times as many as in all of 2016, <a href=\"http:\/\/migration.iom.int\/europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).<\/p>\n<p>Thousands more migrants have entered Spain by land, primarily at the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the north coast of Morocco, the European Union\u2019s only land borders with Africa. Once there, migrants are housed in temporary shelters and then moved to the Spanish mainland, from where many continue on to other parts of Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/10840\/spain-migrant-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain is on track to overtake Greece as the second-biggest gateway for migrants entering Europe by sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,109],"tags":[21,195,177],"class_list":["post-6816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam-in-europe","category-spain-islam-in-europe","tag-immigration","tag-migration-crisis","tag-spain"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Europe: Migrant Crisis Reaches Spain - 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