The population of immigrants in Ibiza and Formentera, one of highest of Spain

The consellera of Immigration presents in Ibiza the campaign ` Empadrónate´. Pastor assures that in July the Unique Point of Information will be opened. Ibiza and Formentera are between the places of Spain that have a higher percentage of immigrant population , according to the Balearic consellera Immigration and Cooperation, Pastor. The consellera based the number of immigrants of the Ibiza and Formentera in a 20 percent of the total of the residents. ` Empadrónate in your Ayuntamiento´ Pastor visited Ibiza yesterday to display the campaign, with which it is wanted to animate to the immigrants to register itself. Conselleria will distribute in Balears a total of 20,000 pamphlets informing into the proceedings that must follow for the empadronamiento and its advantages. "one is to convince them that being empadronado it is not to be Filed", Pastor, who emphasized that the campaign also tries to present the resident immigrants the services that can solicit to only be empadronados. "It is necessary to emphasize that the case of the immigrants is not like the one of the rest of the population, who remain registerd while they do not indicate the opposite" plus in their case, every two years must inform from their situation to the City council. The consellera indicated like characteristic of the immigration that arrives at the islands that "they don't leave, its people who come to stay". In the same way, it confessed that it is impossible to calculate the number of irregular immigrants who are at the moment live in the island of Ibiza, although based in around 50,000 the regularized ones in the balears. Pastor confessed the lack of information of the population immigrant and for this reason he announced that he will start up in Ibiza the Unique Point of information and Attention to Immigration. The consellera emphasized the necessity that the immigrants can find all the information they need , the bureaucratic proceedings that must follow and solve any other doubt in the same office. Although it did not offer a concrete date, the consellera ventured that this point of information could open its doors during the month of July.

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