Valido demands the State "a plan b" if there is no agreement to reform the Immigration Law

The spokesperson for Coalición Canaria in the Congress of Deputies, Cristina Valido, has asked the Government of Spain to foresee “an alternative action” to achieve the shared management by the autonomous communities of unaccompanied migrant minors who arrive on the islands. In the Commission for Children and Youth in the Lower House, Valido stressed to Minister Sira Rego the need to “have an alternative response foreseen” in the event that a political agreement with a parliamentary majority cannot be reached.

“We share the need to move forward with the reform of the law, but if that desire is not fulfilled, and if that negotiating table is not reconstituted, what is plan b?”, indicated the Canarian nationalist spokesperson before the five thousand migrant minors who are currently in the Canary Islands. “And if the agreement we need doesn't happen, are we going to do nothing? How many thousands of children are we going to care for in the Canary Islands without being able to fulfill their rights?”, said Cristina Valido, who reiterated the need for the children's spokespersons of the groups in Congress to travel to the islands “so that they can see what we are talking about firsthand, so that they can see this reality up close.”

In this context, the spokesperson for Coalición Canaria has asked the minister to provide the parliamentary groups with information
related to the map of resources available for each territory, as well as the registry of these minors and the provision of specific financing to provide care. “We need to have all this information to advance in the conversations”, Valido requested to the Minister of Children and Youth, “because you have told the media that it was advanced, but as the negotiation stopped we have not had the necessary access to that information” on the distribution of unaccompanied minors in all territories.

In this area, Cristina Valido pointed out in the appearance of the minister, to report on her management during the first year of
legislature, the need to include migrant minors without adult family companionship in the State pact for the eradication of poverty. “This program against poverty must carry measures and actions to care for them, so that this welcoming and solidarity State pact does not talk about the poverty of others and forget about the poverty of these unaccompanied migrant minors”, said the Canarian nationalist spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies.