The Secretary of Organization of the Canarian Coalition, David Toledo, has accused the PSOE of “colonialist” after the approval in the Council of Ministers of the Temporary Attention Center for Foreigners (CATE) of Arrecife, declared as a work of "general interest".
Toledo has accused the PSOE of “continuing to make the same mistakes it made in the Arguineguín camp, as well as in the macro-centers of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and La Laguna”; and has criticized the “policy of accomplished facts of a PSOE, which first raises some tents that in no case meet the minimum requirements for the reception of people, and then approves the declaration of work of general interest to prevent its dismantling”.
David Toledo has announced that the nationalists are already preparing an “offensive” that ranges from the request for urgent appearances by the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who authorized the camp in Arrecife, to the demand that “responsibilities be purged in the rest of the administrations that have allowed Arrecife to host one more of the camps of shame with which the PSOE intends to respond to a humanitarian emergency”.
“We will demand the resignation of all those who have participated in a decision that has been taken behind the backs of the residents of Arrecife,” Toledo pointed out, who affirms that “those who have participated in this decision and those who have allowed it do not deserve to continue in their positions for even a minute more.”
Likewise, he criticized that the State “has authorized this camp under the protection of a Royal Decree approved during the first months of the pandemic to unilaterally impose its decision to install the center on the Island, with the complicity and silence of the President of the Canary Islands, the President of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Canarian socialist senators and deputies”.
The national Secretary of Organization of CC describes the PSOE's immigration policy as “indecent”, stating that it is still "determined to turn its back on a reality that claimed the lives of 4,404 people in 2021 and that has cost the lives of another 18 people and a 2-year-old baby precisely off the coast of Lanzarote a few days ago.” In addition, he has criticized that after more than two years of migratory crisis “they have been unable to plan resources to provide dignified care to the people who arrive every day in subhuman conditions to the Islands, and in particular to Lanzarote, which has been overwhelmed from the beginning, not only by the arrival of boats but by the reception of unaccompanied minors”.
