The xenophobic gathering supported by Vox against unaccompanied migrant children’s centres barely brought together 20 people this Saturday at noon in the municipality of Santa Úrsula. Holding signs that read “stop the invasion”, “Sánchez, traitor, you sell us out to Morocco”, or “Let’s protect Santa Úrsula, no more illegal immigration”, the few attendees gathered in front of the town hall of Santa Úrsula on a rainy day.
The protest against unaccompanied migrant children’s centres organized for this Saturday at 11:00 in front of the town hall of Santa Úrsula by two local groups in Tenerife and supported by Vox was based on a hoax.
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A neighbourhood association in Santa Úrsula, joined by another one in La Laguna, called for the gathering “against the establishment” of several reception centres for illegal immigrants arriving in our land in the town of Santa Úrsula. The concentration’s motto is: “Stop immigrant centres”.
“Instead of integrating, immigrants turn the environment where they are placed into true hotbeds of unhealthiness and insecurity,” stated the concentration’s release
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This information is false. The municipal Government of Santa Úrsula warned about it a month ago through their social media profiles, and reiterated it in Thursday’s council session: there are no plans to open any reception centre for unaccompanied migrant children in this municipality, as confirmed by the Ministry of Social Welfare of the Government of Canarias, a fact that the Santa Úrsula municipal government would not reject in case it was hypothetically proposed in the future.
Nevertheless, several dozen people still demonstrated this Saturday, a gathering that was supported in Thursday’s council by the only Vox councillor in the Santa Úrsula town hall, Mariana Cueva. The rest of the political parties rejected this concentration.
Protesters held signs saying “stop the invasion”, “Sánchez, traitor, you sell us out to Morocco”, or “Let’s protect Santa Úrsula, no more illegal immigration”
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“Instead of integrating, immigrants turn the environment where they are placed into true hotbeds of unhealthiness and insecurity,” stated the concentration’s release. The spokesperson of the organizing platform, Santa Úrsula resident Flor Hernández, when asked about specific problems, pointed out: “We don’t have any concrete data. We refer to what the residents of Rodeo Alto tell us”, who, according to her, “speak of thefts and the presence of pimps around the immigrant centre”.
