SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands said this Wednesday that human trafficking and the illegal smuggling of immigrants is a “real problem” to which the institutions cannot “look the other way.”
“It is very necessary for the Canarian institutions to know this reality, both in the countries of origin and in those of destination. Only by working together can we try to alleviate a problem that is getting worse due to the migration crisis that we are going through,” he said after meeting with the director of the A-TIPSOM project (Action against Human Trafficking and Illicit Smuggling of Migrants), Federico Millán Maricalva, which collaborates with Nigerian entities in the fight against human trafficking and smuggling.
This meeting, promoted due to the migration crisis in the Canary Islands, was also attended by the Chief Inspector of the General Commissariat for Immigration and Borders, Fernando Álvarez; the Nigerian delegation of the project, with representatives of groups and public administrations of the African country, and the journalist María Montero.
During the meeting, the president learned details of the A-TIPSOM project, an initiative financed with funds from the European Union and implemented by the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Public Policy Administration, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior of Spain, whose objective is to prevent human trafficking at the national, regional and especially between Nigeria and the European Union.
Very concerned that the Spanish government has not done more to stop the boats of illigal immigrants arriving. Our kindness is being taken for weakness
The government seem to have no plan to meet the challenge of illegal immigrants.