The president of the Popular Party of Lanzarote, Astrid Pérez, regrets the loss of human lives that irregular migration continues to claim, facing what could be the worst tragedy in the history of immigration in the islands, after the sinking of a cayuco about six kilometers from El Hierro and the death of nine people and 48 missing.
"The Canary Islands are experiencing a humanitarian drama without precedents in first person without any reaction from the State Government," says Astrid Pérez. "There are no words left to warn of what is happening in the islands in the face of an absent and insensitive government, which has been oblivious to this phenomenon for six years, and with a president who, comfortably and from a distance, does not assume the migratory problem as his own."
The president of the Lanzarote Populars assures that the conclusion cannot be other "when we look back and see that during this time, six years, an entire state government has not been able to establish its migration policy and implement effective care and control measures."
In this sense, she points out that the Canary Islands have been warning for some time of the difficulties in providing comprehensive assistance to unaccompanied minors and "if a limit and unsustainable situation has been reached, with almost 6,000 minors in care, it is due to the irresponsibility of the central government, which, having the necessary tools to carry out the transfers, has not assumed its competence."
The leader of the PP asks "what can we canaries expect from a government that hides behind Europe to cross its arms and that in all these years has not even requested the reinforcement of Frontex to fight against the mafias that traffic people."
Pérez recalls that Lanzarote knows very well the consequences of having a government that permanently looks the other way, "a government expert in putting 'provisional' patches that end up being permanent, such as the misnamed CATE of Arrecife, or that is not even capable of installing and starting up the SIVE radar in the northern area."
