Migrants risk deadly route to Spain's Canary Islands

Now, these migrants arriving here this morning have taken one of the world's deadliest migrant routes. They'll have sailed off on the coast of western Senegal perhaps as many as four, five, six, seven, eight days ago to get here to El Hierro. It's very dangerous and become increasingly dangerous because of the route they now have to take. They sail further out into the Atlantic and come up to El Hierro because along the coast of Mauritania and Morocco there have been increased patrols to try and stop. Migrants, making it much more dangerous for these guys sailing further out to sea. Now, the regional government here says this surge in migrants is completely unsustainable. It's straining health services and transport services, and they need more help. What usually happens is the migrants are processed here on this small island, then they're sent... Maybe within a couple of days to the other larger Canary Islands and then on to mainland Spain. But Spain says it needs help dealing with this surge of migrants, which comes every year in the autumn months generally because the sea conditions are a bit more favourable.