The Canary Islands archipelago is suffering a new wave of cayucos that arrive almost daily to one of the eight islands that make up the Canary Islands. The month of August has been the one in which more migrants have arrived on our shores.
He The Government of the Canary Islands has once again demanded from the State a “fair” distribution of unaccompanied foreign minors throughout the Spanish territory before the continuous arrival of illegal boats that arrive almost daily to the Canary Islands.
This has been pointed out through a letter from the Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Childhood and Families, Candelaria Delgado, to the acting Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, José Luis Escrivá.
The Canary Islander also highlighted in the letter the need to address both the situation of irregular migration in the Canary Islands, as well as actions aimed at family reunification and adaptation, to the current reality, of comprehensive and inclusive reception and quality of migrants , financed said program through a direct subsidy for the amount of 50 million euros and articulated by means of an agreement signed on October 6, 2022.
Delgado exposed the serious problem What does it mean for islands like The iron“Without space or sufficient infrastructure, 58 minors arrive in a single day, as happened on August 15, who cannot be cared for in decent conditions.or on the ninth day of this month that they arrived at Lanzarote a total of eight boats with 61 minors”.
Similarly, the counselor pointed out that only so far this year the arrival of boats has grown exponentially, mainly on islands such as El Hierro and Tenerife, compared to all of last year.
Until the On August 22 of this year, 19 boats arrived at El Hierro and 24 at Tenerife, while in all of last year, four and seven boats arrived respectively.
The comparison of the months of January to August 2022 with January to August 22, 2023, show that throughout this year there are an increase of 32.40% in the arrival of minors compared to last year.
In the last two and a half years, 346 unaccompanied minors have been transferred to 12 autonomous communities, the vast majority moved to Catalonia (63), Castilla y León (49) and Asturias (47).
For years, in 2021 they moved 209 minorsin 2022 barely 17 and 120 this year 2023 in which, as the counselor explains, “We have reactivated the referrals in the face of migratory pressure that is supporting the archipelago”.
“It is striking,” added Delgado, “that in 2022 only 17 minors were displaced when in July of that same year it had been agreed in the Sector Conference the transfer of 340 minors from the Canary Islands and committed to another transfer in 2023 of 342″.
The counselor also recalled that at the XXVI Conference of Presidents held in La Palma in March 2022 “from the Canary Islands a co-responsible distribution was demanded and that the European Migration Pact will be accelerated“.
“In fact, in that same month of March, The Parliament of the Canary Islands unanimously approved all the political groups to request the State to carry out a mandatory distribution And the reality was that, as of March 2022, only 7 minors were transferred in September and 120 this year, 49 of them after the change of government on the islands.
The latest transfers have been made in this month of August, specifically on the 10th, in which seven minors left for Castilla y León and the last 20 traveled to Catalonia yesterday, Tuesday the 22nd.
Finally, The Canary Islands currently have 1,923 places to accommodate foreign minors without family (1,523 in devices of the Government of the Canary Islands and 400 in centers of the councils).
