The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, announced this Tuesday that the regional government sent another letter to the Supreme Court this Monday in view of "the slowness of the transfer" of unaccompanied minors with the right to asylum, understanding that there is "a clear disobedience" of the high court's mandate, having transferred only 127 minors or "1.5 per day."
This was stated by the regional president in the plenary session of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, in response to a question asked by the PP deputy Luz Reverón on this matter.
"Yesterday we registered a letter in the Supreme Court in which we highlight these circumstances because we do not want to be accomplices with the Government of Spain in the breach of the Supreme Court's orders and that the rights of children continue to be violated," argued Clavijo, who pointed out that the transfer rate "makes no sense."
He added that with this flow "it is evident that the overcrowding problem will not be solved" and that in fact the forecasts are that it will worsen.
He also accused the Government of Spain of racism, again comparing the situation of minors arriving in the Canary Islands from Africa with the reception of unaccompanied minors from the war in Ukraine, which he put at around 7,000.
"They were welcomed without needing to go to a court. There were no excuses or fuss. We believe that there is racism behind it. And it is sad that a government that calls itself progressive and democratic has to be sued by an autonomous community to comply with its obligations," Clavijo reiterated.
Reverón asked her question along the same lines, considering the situation "absurd" after only 11% of referrals have been reached in these months, which she considered a "systematic breach" by the Government of Spain, which she accused of institutional disloyalty and abandonment.
She also lamented that the PSOE is focusing on the autonomous communities governed by the PP, as all of this, Reverón asserted, "is part of a premeditated political strategy that wants to turn the Canary Islands into a dead end for minors."