
Catalina Espinosa
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Get in touch with us nowAccording to the source, the number of people that arrived in Spain illegally by sea fluctuated over the period of time under consideration, peaking in 2018 at around 57,500. The number of irregular migrants that arrived in Spain by sea was estimated to be approximately 61,300 in 2024. In the previous years more than half of these migrants arrived at Spanish territory via the Canary Islands.
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