SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 15 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has said he is willing to try to sign a new pact on immigration in the Islands, but has admitted that he fears its effectiveness.
The Canarian president, who has participated in a new SER Meeting, warned that the signing of a pact obliges those who sign it to comply with it, but now it seems that immigration “does not oblige us, but rather it is always the other’s fault”.
Ángel Víctor Torres acknowledges that the other Autonomous Communities have to help with the reception of migrants, but stressed that there are Canarian municipalities that have arranged infrastructures for the reception of these people and others that “don’t want to and put up problems”.
“We could make the Pact, propose it; my fear is the effectiveness of that pact”, reiterated Torres, who recalled that in the Canary Islands there have already been several pacts on immigration, but what is important now “is not the signature itself, but the conviction to respect that”.
