SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, said this Wednesday that it is “unaffordable” that an autonomous community can manage alone the guardianship of some 2,500 unaccompanied migrant minors and asks the State for a regulation that does not involve “solidarity “between territories.
In an interview granted to the ‘Cadena Ser’ and collected by Europa Press he commented that the competence of minors belongs to the autonomous communities but “in a normalized situation”, when they need “guardianship and training” and now, there is a new rebound migration and a change in profile as more women and children arrive.
Questioned by the different actions of the central government with the minors who arrived in Ceuta and the Canary Islands, he pointed out that the North African city received about 8,000 in 24 hours and has 80,000 inhabitants, apart from the fact that a “conflict between countries” was opened beyond the migratory sphere. and that it forced the European Union to intervene. “It was a different situation,” he said.
Torres has also argued that, despite the fact that there are more migrant arrivals this year, “the situation is different” because there are reception resources in almost all the islands, care has improved and there are referrals since there are barely 1,900 adult migrants left in the country. archipelago.
However, he has made no secret that the migratory phenomenon is going to “worsen” in the coming months due to the improvement of the sea and the social crisis in Afghanistan, which adds to the people who are already fleeing their countries due to hunger, the Covid -19 or wars, while he has commented that migrants come to the islands every time in “worse barges” and mortality has increased on the Atlantic route.
Before the next visit to the Canary Islands by the Minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, Ione Belarra, the president is going to request a new legal formula that allows the distribution of minors without waiting for the “solidarity” of the autonomous communities, where the “excellent work” that Catalonia has done.
In addition, he has commented that another of the “solutions” is the possible return of minors to their countries of origin, something that his Government supports but “if there is family restructuring” and their rights are guaranteed.
Torres has insisted that immigration “is not an issue for politics” and sees “denigrating” that some political formations play “with the dead and the drama” of those who flee in search of a better life for what he has claimed to tend hand in hand and “seek solutions” among all administrations and that they cannot pass through the migrants staying in “border territories”.
