Spain’s Canary Islands have sent a formal invitation to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to experience firsthand what they perceive as an escalating migrant crisis. Alfonso Cabello, spokesperson for the Government of the Canary Islands, stressed the urgent need for EU involvement in the crisis, following a 126% increase in small boats arriving from Africa compared to last year. “Europe must look again to its southern border,” he said in his letter to von der Leyen. “It cannot remain oblivious. Inaction is contrary to this European identity, which has been shaped as the greate…