The Government of the Canary Islands has already installed tents in the Puerto Naos dock to house "temporarily" children and adolescents upon their arrival in pateras or inflatable boats to Lanzarote. The Canarian Prosecutor's Office has already warned that it "will not allow" migrant minors to remain in these tents in the ports "as if they were homes for children."
Last week, the Canarian Executive requested Ports of Las Palmas to enable a space next to the Red Cross container and claimed to be in a "situation of collapse and totally unsustainable".
The reception of migrant minors arriving in pateras or cayucos to the Canary Islands is being a puzzle for the Government of the Canary Islands, responsible for their guardianship. The regional Executive already hosts 5,500 children and adolescents in different centers of the archipelago.
In the case of Lanzarote, the Clavijo Government only oversees 200 foreign children, but even so, its centers on the island continue to be the subject of controversy.
Such is the case that the complaint of two lawyers, Loueila Sid Ahmed and Irma Ferrer, to the Casa del Mar have lifted the rug on the problems suffered by minors within these spaces, managed by Non-Governmental Organizations and private foundations.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson for the Canarian Government, Alfonso Cabello, highlighted in statements to Efe that they have had "to go to the limit" and passed the buck to the Government of Spain, demanding again the reform of the Immigration Law for the mandatory distribution of minors.
In this line, the Deputy of the Common, Lola Padrón, is carrying out an ex officio action to clarify the situation of the foreign minor center of the Casa del Mar of Arrecife.
