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Satellite helps fight illegal immigration
By Vanessa Buschschluter
BBC News

January 26, 2009

The Canary Islands have long been a magnet for illegal immigrants trying to reach Europe. A record 30,000 landed there in 2006, most of them making the perilous journey in simple wooden boats from West and North Africa.

As the numbers have swelled, the Spanish authorities have tried to contain the flow by reinforcing border controls and forging links with their counterparts in the migrants' countries of origin.

Ships and planes from seven EU countries now also patrol the Atlantic and the Mediterranean trying to intercept migrants at sea.

And this year, a new tool will be deployed to halt the traffic - a satellite communications system, which will improve contacts between Spain, Portugal and three of the countries the migrants set out from on their perilous crossing, Senegal, Mauritania and Cape Verde.

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