The Government of the Canary Islands trusts that the State will clarify this Tuesday in the Interministerial Commission on Immigration the doubts it maintains regarding the application of the European Pact on Migration and Asylum, as it fears it will turn the islands into a "large detention center".
The spokesperson of the Canarian Executive, Alfonso Cabello, at the press conference he offered after the weekly meeting of the Governing Council this Monday, has stated that two weeks ago at the meeting held at Casa África to address the aforementioned pact it became evident that "nobody knew anything", so the specialists who intervened explained it.
Cabello has insisted on the concern of the Canary Islands Government "about the effect that (the Pact) will have and if it will take into account specificities for the Canary Islands for being a border territory", and about how it faces the situation of migrant minors.
The vulnerability report, "a bottleneck"
The spokesperson for the Canary Islands Government also pointed out that he hopes that in the Commission's meeting there will also be progress on the coordination of the regularization process for foreigners, since the request for the vulnerability report "has become a bottleneck" for local administrations, which are "overwhelmed," because they have not been trained to handle these requests.
From the Canarian Executive, "coordination, closeness, and collaboration" are requested to carry out this regularization process with which it has stressed that "they agree in principle, but it is necessary that it is not done unilaterally by the State".