The Government Delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, has revealed that this Thursday, in the midst of a resurgence of migrant arrivals and the conflict surrounding their reception, there were unaccompanied foreign minors who slept in the Temporary Foreigners Attention Centers, of a police nature.
In a message published on his Facebook profile, Pestana explained that this situation occurred in the foreigners' centers of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote and added that "the adults left this morning before the minors, which goes against any criteria and, of course, against the best interests of the minor."
The delegate adds: "Today there were resources to attend to them, after the TSJC order."
In this way, he referred to the order of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) that issued this Friday the very precautionary suspension of the application of the Canarian Government's protocol.
A few hours earlier, the spokesperson for the Canarian Government, Alfonso Cabello, of the Canarian Coalition (CC), assured that the protocol had not been applied.
The protocol, published eight days earlier in the official gazette, indicated that the guardianship of minors arriving in pateras initially falls to the State and that the regional government would not accept them in its reception centers if they did not arrive correctly identified and with an individualized assignment.
"We know of the tension and deficiencies suffered by the child protection services of the Government of the Canary Islands, as I also know of those we have suffered in the care of adults that corresponds to the Government of Spain, which I represent," Pestana points out.
"Nothing is new. But unilateralism is not the solution, but support, dialogue and legal reform," he adds before emphasizing: "I hope that sanity prevails and the PP supports a fair reform that prevents here, in the Canary Islands, and in other Spanish lands, that there is no co-responsibility of the rest of the autonomous communities."
