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We analyze sentence by sentence the interventions of the popular spokesperson: #### 1) «According to Frontex data, in Spain they have arrived in 2018 via Mediterráneo, Ceuta and Melilla, nearly 65,000 irregular immigrants. It's true. The specific number of arrivals between January 1 and January 14 December is 61,441, according to the International Organization for Migration. #### 2) «The Atlantic route, the route to the Canary Islands, has also been reopened, which "It had been closed for a decade, with an increase this year of 213%." It's HALF TRUE. This year 1,266 immigrants have arrived in the Canary Islands, compared to 416 last year. It is true that it is an annual increase of 204%. But the data does not mean that the route has been "reopened" at the levels from ago a decade. In 2007, 12,478 people arrived in the Canary Islands. In 2008, 9,181. #### 3) «These figures are absolute records for the arrival of immigration to our country above what we already had in that crisis of the cayucos in 2006. It's true. In 2006, 41,222 irregular immigrants arrived in Spain. ![\\"You](\\"\\") Gabriel Le Senne will continue as president of the Balearic Parliament after breaking the photo of women retaliated by Falangists #### 4) «In just six months you have turned Spain into the main gateway of irregular immigration in Europe. It is TRUE that it is the main door to immigration in Europe: 61,441 people have entered the continent through Spain, up from 47,600 from Greece or the 23,110 from Italy. #### 5) «One in every two immigrants who arrive on European soil today, do so through Spain. It's true. 61,441 of the 136,900 immigrants who have entered the continent have made through Spain. It's almost half. #### 6) «While arrivals in the central Mediterranean have decreased by 80%, and has been reduced by more than 40% in the EU as a whole, immigration irregularities in Spain have increased by 133% with this Government (…)». It's HALF TRUE. It is true that in Italy it has fallen by 81% (from 119,369 in 2017 to 23,126) and in the EU it has fallen by 37% (from 186,768 to 136,953). In the same period in Spain has increased by 114% (from 28,707 to 61,441). ![\\"origin](\\"\\") Someone who heard from a neighbor who had read it somewhere: the origin of the hoax about Haitians who eat pets They are therefore, with the nuances indicated, correct statements founded in data. In his second speech he referred to this matter again. providing one more information: #### 7) «The number of immigrants arriving by sea and by land is multiply by four. We have asked the popular parliamentary group in the Senate about this statement by Ignacio Cosidó, since between 2017 and 2018 the data has grown by little more than double (114%) and it is not clear what the PP senator is referring to. The parliamentary group responds that it refers to the first and second semester of 2018. We have verified that until the end of June (approximately when the PP left the Government) around 14,000 immigrants had arrived irregularities, which is certainly a little less than a quarter of the 61,441 accounted for on December 14. 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These figures are an absolute record of the arrival of immigration to our country above what we already had in that cayucos crisis in 2006