More than 150 migrants sit on the pier after arriving aboard two boats at the port of Los Cristianos, in Tenerife, on October 23, 2023.
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Migrants travel by boat for hundreds of miles from Africa to reach Spain’s Canary Islands. After surviving the dangerous crossing, many are stranded for months and unable to work.