The Diplomat
The Public Prosecutor’s Office warns in its 2021 Annual Report that the “massive influx” of irregular migrants into Spain last year has left “a significant number” of undocumented people in marginalised areas in conditions of poverty and long-term exclusion. It also warns that there are “serious problems of infrastructure for the provision of dignified and adequate places for their immediate reception and care”.
In 2021, 1,599 precautionary measures for the internment of foreigners were issued, compared to 2,164 reports in 2020 and 7,677 in 2019, according to the report. Of these, 1,204 were favourable and 355 unfavourable to the adoption of the precautionary measure. According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, this decrease in the number of internments is attributable to the territorial restrictions derived from the pandemic, fundamentally the closure of the borders of Morocco, Algeria and Portugal.
Exceptionally, there was an increase in the number of requests for internment in the inadmissibility room at Madrid-Barajas airport, with 297 reports having been issued, compared to 176 in 2020.
