The Deputy Delegate of the Government in Granada, Inmaculada López Calahorro, has denied that the central Executive has "chartered" any flight for the transfer of some 200 immigrants from the Canary Islands to the province of Granada and has assured that these people, after spending the 72 hours in which they can be under police custody after arriving in Spain, are "free" and have their "papers in order to be able to move in the national territory." "With their own resources they have been able to travel on a commercial plane," she added.
In statements to journalists, López Calahorro explained that, once the maximum period in which they can be in a Temporary Attention Center for Foreigners has passed, these people can move to meet with resident relatives or "legal workers who may be in Andalusia or in the rest of Spain."
She has asked, in this context, not to cast any "suspicion" on the Government's actions, when "there are" agreements with "all the autonomous communities in matters of immigration," within the framework of which these immigrants are given a PCR when they arrive in national territory, as has been happening since the beginning of the pandemic, added the Deputy Delegate, in the Port of Motril, on the coast of Granada, or in those of Malaga or the Canary Islands.
Thus, she pointed out that "they come with their negative PCR," and that "the delegate of the Junta" in Granada, Pablo García, knows that perfectly well, who on the morning of this Wednesday lamented the "absolute disloyalty" of the Government in this matter.
López Calahorro has stressed that García knows "the procedure," or "maybe he doesn't know it" and "neither" does the mayor of Granada, Luis Salvador, who has also been critical of his management, and with whom he has coincided this Wednesday in the meeting he has convened of the Security Coordination Center (Cecor).
"You cannot link pandemic with immigration," the Deputy Delegate also criticized, for whom that is "a discourse" that she has described as "dangerous," calling, in this sense, for the "responsibility" of the autonomous and municipal administrations.
