SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The La Laguna City Council held an extraordinary plenary session this Thursday dedicated to the current immigration situation in the Canary Islands and all the political groups with representation in the council, with the sole exception of Vox, have approved a motion that reiterates the 21 points approved in February 2021 and that claim the city as an “open and welcoming municipality.”
On this occasion, two new points have been incorporated in which the corporation expresses the commitment to “resuming the work of the Municipal Board of Reception of Migrants and Refugees, as a space for community work”, and to continue “projects linked to reception, cultural diversity, the fight against hoaxes around migration, in areas such as education or neighborhoods.
The plenary session has reiterated the municipality’s rejection of a reception model based on macrocentres, vindicating La Laguna’s commitment to providing care to migrants and urging the state government to increase the allocations intended to provide adequate and comprehensive care to the migrant population. , among twenty points.
This document also rejects that the Canary Islands become “an open-air prison for migrants who wish to continue their route to the European continent”, urging the administrations involved to achieve maximum coordination and collaboration in this matter and prioritize the distribution solidarity of migrants between the different humanitarian reception devices existing on the Peninsula and in the European Union, includes a note from the City Council.
