Canary Islands will complain to the Supreme Court about the "lack of collaboration" from the State with minors seeking asylum

 The Canarian Executive will file a complaint this Friday before the Supreme Court for "the lack of collaboration" it perceives in the Government of Spain to comply with its orders regarding the reception of immigrant minors seeking asylum, who must pass into the State's protection network.

The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has stressed that it is not that they "fear" that the central government's purpose is for these children and adolescents to remain on the islands given the opposition of a large part of the other autonomous communities to take them in centers in their territory, but that "they are verifying it."

"We know it, that's what they have told us. After two Supreme Court orders, the Government of Spain, in the political battles of Madrid, what it is demonstrating is that it does not want to take the minors out of the Canary Islands and does not want to attend to them. If it has registered them in the international protection system, it has been forced by two Supreme Court orders, because they were already being warned with fines," he added.

Clavijo maintains that the State employs "delaying tactics" to not take charge of these young people and he links this situation with the resignation of the Director General of Humanitarian Attention and the International Protection Reception System of the Ministry of Migration, Amapola Blasco, who resigned at the beginning of the month.

"On Friday, we will be obliged to notify the Supreme Court of the lack of collaboration and predisposition of the Government of Spain to comply with its orders. Unfortunately, once again we are only left with the path of Justice," the Canarian president complained.

Fernando Clavijo has stressed that "the only places that have been put on the table" by the State are those of a center in the islands, the Canary Islands 50, with which these minors would remain in the archipelago, but, in addition, he added, "it has not even started the itinerary (of protection) with the interview of the almost 1,000 minors of whom the documentation has been delivered to them."

All of this proves that the State "leaves" the Canary Islands and the minors "alone," considers the Canarian president, who assures that he "does not understand why his predecessor in office, Minister Ángel Víctor Torres, "collaborates" in delaying the transfer of the minors.

Asked about the process to distribute the reception of the rest of the unaccompanied minors who have not applied for asylum, as provided for in the reform of the Immigration Law, he has not hidden his misgivings. "I expect zero collaboration from the autonomous communities. From all of them, those of the PP and also those of the PSOE that have announced appeals before the Constitutional Court. But, regardless of whether they collaborate or not, the law is already in force and I hope that it is complied with and that at the end of August we can start to derive them," he added.

Clavijo has stressed that "it is important that this is the case, because, from September, the weather improves in the area of the Atlantic located south of the Canary Islands and the navigation conditions will be favorable for pateras and cayucos to arrive to the islands again."