Demonstrators denounce the death of an illegal migrant when he tried to cross the border swimming by the Bidasoa river and ask for safe corridors for migrants. Irun (Basque Country). November 22, 2021. As the number of migrants arriving on the coasts of southern Spain incresead, more and more migrants are heading north to the border city of Irun but they encounter the fierce controls the French police place at all border crossings and they try to cross by any means . (Gari Garaialde / Bostok Photo).