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The Police has accelerated in recent hours the transfer to the peninsula of immigrants who arrived in the Canary Islands in recent weeks.

According to police sources, today, four flights have been used to make these trips in groups.

For tomorrow morning they are scheduled to use another four flights.

According to these sources, it is about decongesting the areas of Gran Canaria where immigrants are being treated, specifically, the Arguineguín pier, where the NGO tents where those arriving by sea are welcomed were clearly exceeded and the conditions hygienic, clearly improvable.

This acceleration coincides with the arrival tomorrow at noon to Gran Canaria of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, and the European Commissioner for the Interior, Ylva Johansson, who will travel to the island to learn first-hand about the situation caused by irregular arrivals to the community and the measures to deal with the situation.

The Jupol union does not consider it logical to have these situations, these transfers, before the minister's visit.

He also complains that these transfers are delaying regular flights.

In fact, commercial flights are being used to carry out the immigrants' trips, with the consequent police movement to accompany them, they assure from this union that they recall that more than 1,500 immigrants have gathered on this island and that the logistics for serving them has been clearly outgrown.

The police unions demand from the Ministry of the Interior an increase in staff in the Canary Islands to be able to face this migratory crisis in the area.

This is how both Jusapol and the SUP pronounce themselves before the visit of the Minister of the Interior.

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