SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has advanced this Friday that at the next Conference of Presidents to be held in La Palma he will request “more commitment” from the autonomous communities with the distribution of unaccompanied migrant minors.
“The situation is not fair”, he has indicated in statements to the media in which he has stressed that the Canary Islands have more than 2,600 minors in their custody and have managed to refer 208, but it is “insufficient”.
Torres has assumed that the current legislative framework prevents demanding a distribution of minors but does not hide that the Canary Islands is a ‘border territory’ and cannot exclusively absorb the attention of minors even if there is a 50 million item in the Budgets State Generals.
Thus, he commented that the Canary Islands make “a great effort” to welcome, care and integrate minors but they are a “vulnerable population” that has many demands, and as is already the case with adults, who move to the Peninsula, they must be able to be attended in other autonomous communities.
In any case, he has demanded that the debate about unaccompanied minors be separated “from the partisan struggle and the political debate”.
