He said Italy would block those other rescue ships, too, writing: "These gentlemen know that Italy no longer wants to be complicit in the business of illegal immigration, and therefore will have to look for other ports (not Italian) where to go."
On Sunday morning, Spanish medical staff boarded the Dattilo to carry out preliminary health checks when the Italian Navy ship reached its assigned dock at Valencia's port, shortly before 7 a.m. local time. Spanish police officers began registering the first migrants once they were allowed to disembark. The Orione, another Italian Navy vessel, was the last to reach Valencia, more than six hours after the Dattilo.
The first migrant who completed the registration process was a 29-year-old man from Sudan, according to Spanish news reports. Over 2,000 people helped receive the migrants in Valencia, including Red Cross workers and interpreters.
Some of the migrants are expected to be transferred to France, after the government of President Emmanuel Macron announced that passengers from the Aquarius who wished to resettle in his country would be welcomed.
Aquarius's arrival coincided with the rescue of almost 1,000 migrants off the southern coast of Spain over the weekend. The migrants were picked up by the country's maritime rescue services as they were trying to cross the waters separating Morocco from Spain in dozens of dinghies.
"Spain faces an avalanche of migrants because of the call effect," the headline on the front page of ABC, a Spanish right-wing newspaper, read on Sunday. The newspaper said that "almost 1,000 illegals" had reached southern Andalusia, calling it the largest influx of migrants since 2014.
According to ABC, the message sent by the Socialist government's humanitarian gesture could be "used by the mafias that traffic human beings to increase their activity, because it allows them to make their clients believe that the entrance to Spanish territory — and hence that of Europe — will be easier from now."
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