
Such has been the onslaught this summer with of arrivals from North Africa that the Army has set up a tent encampment in Motril Port to help cope.
Motril has had to open up a public building to house the illegal-immigrant overspill – the port facilities cannot keep them there after 72 hours.
The arrival of illegal immigrants is constant and barely a week goes by without news of another group of immigrants rescued at sea.
(COE14/TVI07) With the non-stop arrival of illegal immigrants at Motril Port, the Central Government is thinking of turning the Motril Air Base into an illegal immigrant holding centre.