Cartagena is a city in southeastern Spain on the Mediterranean coast. The city has recently been inundated by throngs of migrants that have been intercepted by Frontex and the Spanish maritime rescue service. The following video is a report on the disposition of those migrants and the problems they generate for the municipality.
If you parse the vice mayor’s statements, you’ll notice that she is basically making a NIMBY argument — she’s not against immigration per se, but just expects the central government to place them somewhere besides Cartagena.
Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
00:05 | A new wave of launches this weekend from the coast of Cartagena. | |
00:09 | The Civil Guard and Marine Rescue and Frontex [French] patrols | |
00:13 | have intercepted about 20 launches | |
00:17 | with some 500 immigrants on board. According to a report | |
00:21 | from a government office, the national police are | |
00:25 | expediting the procedures to deliver these people as soon as possible to NGO reception centers. | |
00:33 | It has been an intense weekend. State security forces | |
00:37 | located boats close to the coast of Cartagena early Saturday morning. | |
00:41 | For the space of two days there has been a continuous flow. | |
00:45 | Eighteen launches with almost 200 people on board. | |
00:49 | Some were transferred to the port of Santa Lucia. Others, | |
00:53 | located in front of Cabo de Palos, and two | |
00:57 | at the limit of the waters of Algeria. In one of them | |
01:00 | two minors, one woman and one baby were traveling. | |
01:03 | The government representative recalled the magnitude of the state mechanism | |
01:07 | in collaboration with other social organizations to confront this humanitarian drama. | |
01:12 | He insisted that all the immigrants who arrived in recent hours | |
01:16 | will be transferred to different reception centers | |
01:20 | or taken by NGOs. Francisco Jimenez informed us that | |
01:24 | that the national police are expediting the procedures | |
01:28 | that form part of the national reception system. | |
01:34 | And the vice mayor, Noelia Arroyo, has advised | |
01:38 | that it is a political error, and with the arrival of the launches, | |
01:42 | Cartagena could be converted into a mafia target. | |
01:46 | On one side, what we know is | |
01:50 | there are immigrants who are arriving on our coasts in launches, | |
01:54 | and that they are leaving them in the streets, and on the other hand, | |
01:58 | the data and the numbers that they offering don’t add up. | |
02:02 | Because of that we say the obligation of the government | |
02:06 | is to provide us with information. We have offered them institutional collaboration, | |
02:12 | absolute institutional loyalty to also put in motion | |
02:16 | our municipal social network. We have asked | |
02:20 | that the reception protocol be activated. And what we want to avoid is that | |
02:24 | in the end Cartagena could turn into a safe port of entry | |
02:30 | for the arrival of illegal immigrants. |
All I saw were young Muslim male invaders swarming a SPANISH city.
Illegal immigration pure and simple-these people should be quickly returned to where they set out from and told to make proper application for asylum. If matters are taken in hand promptly and severely then the Millions now moving day by day through Africa and the Middle East to the Med, will simply over power the authorities throughout Europe.