Canaries migrant surge puts pressure on Spanish government

Spain’s leftist government was under fire Wednesday over its handling of a surge in migrant arrivals on the Canary Islands which has overwhelmed local authorities’ capacity to house them. Conservative opposition parties called for Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska to resign after police late on Tuesday allowed some 200 migrants to leave a camp set up in Arguineguin port on the island of Gran Canaria. The migrants were later bussed to…