Valencia Trader

Three Times Too Many

The Socialist Government has now made it official: it has sent 1,300 illegal immigrants to the Valencian Community, knowing full well that there was only the capability of dealing with 444.
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Sorting it Out

After a six-day wait, Malta finally agreed yesterday to repatriate the 51 illegal immigrants that had been rescued by a Santa Pola fishing smack.
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Finally

The Maltese authorities yesterday finally decided that they would allow the Santa Pola-based fishing craft with 48 illegal immigrants on board to dock in Valetta harbor.
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Network Stopped

The Guardia Civil of Castellon have now put an end to a highly organised network that brought Rumanians into Spain and the Valencian Community illegally after arresting three bus drivers and the owner of a bus service.
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Collapsed

Alicia de Miguel, the Social Services Consellera for the Valencian Government stated yesterday that her department ‘has reached its limits’ in dealing with the numbers of illegal Canary Islands immigrants that have been sent to the Community by the Socialist Government.
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Immigrant Stream Never-Ending

It would appear that the stream of immigrants arriving in the Canary Islands on primitive craft is never-ending, with 332 more arriving in one single day yesterday.
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More Immigrants

The discovery of a raft with nine immigrants on board last Tuesday in the Las Aguilas beach in Murcia Province has alerted the Guardia Civil to the apparent fact that those mafias in charge of organising the illegal arrival of immigrants in Spain has now set its sights on finding new locations.
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Zapatero Verbal Attack on Sarkozy

In a rather odd session of the Madrid Parliament yesterday, Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero came out with a somewhat bizarre verbal attack on Nicholas Sarkozy, the French Interior Minister, who has accused the Prime Minister of being responsible for the immense waves of immigrants in the Canary Islands due to his immigration policy.
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First Arrivals

Alicante’s El Altet airport has seen the first arrivals this year of some North African immigrants, sent there by the Madrid Government after they had spent some 40 days in a centre on the Canary Islands.
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Leaving Valencia

The MSC Cruises ship Sinfonia was refused entry into Valencia Port yesterday in a move that was widely expected after the police in Tenerife and Seville
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Faking the Euros

Members of the Guardia Civil have detained two North Africans in a service station in Torrelano as the main part of an operation aimed at preventing large amounts of false Euros from entering the EU.
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Group Arrested

The Guardia Civil arrested fifteen North Africans across the Valencian Community yesterday, accusing them of drugs trafficking - principally in hashish
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Zapatero Visits Canarys

Vacationing Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero made a brief appearance at a Canary Islands meeting of the Socialist party, where he used his appearance to reply to the latest rumblings from the Basque Country.
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