He criticizes that there are no “decent” places to receive migrants and warns that the Arguineguín “cannot be repeated”
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 2 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Immigration Prosecutor of the province of Las Palmas, María Teseida García, warned this Thursday that the system for setting the age of migrant minors who arrive on the islands “is leaking” and their rights are violated “on all sides “.
In an appearance before the immigration study commission in the Canary Islands, he acknowledged that there is a “collapse” in the procedure and it is “taking a long time”, especially weighed down by the health pandemic, which greatly limited the tests during the state of alarm. “It’s impossible, I don’t have more hands or more lives,” he pointed out.
In addition, he has predicted that the new draft of the State law will be “a failure” because it changes an administrative system for a judicial one and in the Canary Islands they are not “prepared” for that modification, predicting that the courts will collapse in the three eastern islands .
Regarding the distribution of minors throughout the rest of Spain, he has clarified that “there is no legal impediment” for their transfer, but he has asked the deputies for a change in the immigration law based on the principles of “solidarity, integration and the best interest of the minor ” since “no one” wants to host them because it is an “expensive” system.
In this context, he has indicated that a “calm procedure” is needed so that the political powers “can speak”.
García has admitted that all issues related to Immigration are “controversial” for the Government and have a “political wear” but has clarified that his department ensures the rights of people and compliance with the laws.
Thus, for example, he has highlighted that the Prosecutor’s Office was the first authority that in September 2020 denounced that what was happening at the Arguineguín pier “could not be” because “it was unsustainable”, even if it was later investigated and not detected. crime.
He has also commented that the ship that housed migrants in Lanzarote “was filthy” and the ‘cheese ship’ in Fuerteventura was not adequate either, stressing that “it is surprising” that in 2020 the Canary Islands did not have “decent” reception places after having lived the ‘crisis of the cayucos’ of 2006 and counting on the Atlantic route is permanent.
THEY CANNOT BE “THROWN AWAY” IN A GARAGE
García has warned that “what happened with Arguineguín cannot be repeated” and if it does, he will denounce the situation again with reports to both the State Attorney General’s Office and the Government Delegation.
He has insisted that migrants “are people” and cannot “be dumped” in a garage in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, on an esplanade in Arguineguín or in tents.
Likewise, he has denied that migrants are detained after the first 72 hours in the CIE or the CATEs –if they are there, it is in a situation of freedom– and he has warned that there are many attempts at “fraudulent asylum”, something that he sees “human” in case he tries to leave his country and not return, but he has clarified that the law must be followed.
García has criticized that the Spanish law does not comply with the 2013 European directive, which has caused sanctions by the EU since it is used “tortically” and many migrants request asylum “despite the fact that they are not beneficiaries and the systems collapse.”
