{"id":54780,"date":"2019-12-14T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T08:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54780"},"modified":"2019-12-14T16:38:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T08:38:46","slug":"spain-pledges-funds-for-asylum-seekers-as-latin-american-arrivals-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54780","title":{"rendered":"Spain pledges funds for asylum seekers as Latin American arrivals spike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/apicms.thestar.com.my\/uploads\/images\/2019\/12\/14\/437893.JPG\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO Venezuelan citizens and other migrants wait at the border with Colombia at the Rumichaca bridge checkpoint in Ecuador August 24 2019.  REUTERS Daniel TapiaFile Photo\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MADRID, Dec 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Spanish government authorised nearly 150 million euros in subsidies to ease the strain on its migrant-processing system after a recent spike in arrivals from Latin America overwhelmed its social services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government spokeswoman Isabel Celaa, who announced the measure at a weekly briefing, said the subsidies will be complemented by 25 million euros from European funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provoked by national crises in Spanish-speaking countries like Venezuela and Colombia, the number of people seeking asylum in Spain has skyrocketed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madrid City Council received 50,000 asylum applications between January and October 2019 &#8211; compared to only 36,000 nationwide and throughout 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acute and localised influx of Central and South American refugees saturated Madrid&#8217;s Social Services last month, leading dozens of families to camp in front of its headquarters hoping to get spots in hostel or reception centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, Madrid&#8217;s local government approved the creation of a temporary reception centre for asylum-seekers in the Spanish capital, due to open in January, according to municipal government spokeswoman Inmaculada Sanz. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID, Dec 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Spanish government authorised nearly 150 million euros in subsidies to ease the strain on its migrant-processing system after a recent spike in arrivals from Latin America overwhelmed its social services. Government spokeswoman Isabel Celaa, who announced the measure at a weekly briefing, said the subsidies will be complemented by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}