The vice president of the Canary Islands, Manuel Domínguez (PP), insisted this Wednesday on demanding the intervention of the Navy due to the arrival of immigrants to the islands, something he considers necessary because he believes that those arriving in rafts and canoes are "invading us".
"We have said it with absolute clarity, we have said that the Canary Islands need to be attended to by the Government of Spain," which is not doing what it should regarding this phenomenon, stated the also leader of the PP in the archipelago.
Domínguez recalled the volume of arrivals in October (6,194 people, more than in the entire first semester) and emphasized that in just three days in November, about 1,600 more have been rescued.
All this, without an adequate response from the Government of Spain, whose members are not concerned about what is happening in the Canary Islands because "they are focused on other things," according to the vice president.
The leader of the PP in the Canary Islands made these statements when speaking at a forum organized by Canarias 7 along with his party's candidate for Congress for Las Palmas, Sergio Ramos.
And, as an argument, he added: "Look, I haven't heard a single minister, nor the president of the Government, anyone, talk about immigration in our land; they only use it as a throwing weapon and for electoral purposes."
"Therefore, we insist again on the need for the deployment of Frontex, of the Armed Forces. We believe that, in this way, with support for the Civil Guard and the National Police, we save lives and reduce the number of immigrants who may reach our coasts, the Canary Islands' coasts," he added.
His words were supported by the candidate Sergio Ramos, who stated that the country's current rulers, "with this issue, have profoundly failed."
"I believe they have left migratory policy aside, they don't care. And I will dare to say something: they absolutely do not care if people die at sea, and I say this with utmost clarity," added the popular candidate.
Ramos maintained that this approach contrasts with that of the PP, which he believes set an example of how to properly manage the migratory phenomenon when Mariano Rajoy was president of the Government, a period during which he stated that, "for seven consecutive years, only (an average of) 470 people arrived in the Canary Islands per year" and that "that was a total of 3,800 people in seven years."
"Therefore, I think the model is quite clearly differentiated," he concluded.
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