The Canary Islands are at bursting point.
Not the beaches and hotels that cater for millions of tourists each year, but the police stations, courts and detention centres being used to house the boatloads of illegal immigrants risking the ocean crossing from west Africa.
It has reached the point where some local authorities are publicly opposing efforts to expand existing centres or open new ones to house them while they are processed and either repatriated or sent to the Spanish mainland.