Court overturns Spanish island migration policy
13 June 2021 |
3:35 pm
In 2020, more than 20,000 migrants from North Africa reached the Canaries. But because Spain denies them to move to the mainland, campaigners say the islands have become a "migrant prison." A court has now overturned that policy.
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