Coalición Canaria has accused this Friday the PSOE of "failing on the distribution of unaccompanied minors arriving to the Islands" in recent years and who have been "welcomed in an overwhelmed system."
The nationalists denounce that the PSOE "has not fulfilled any of its promises" in migratory matters. Torres has preferred to "bow his head in front of Madrid and the CCAA" than to "defend the rights of children who are cared for in a collapsed reception system," the party says.
The Canarian nationalists have pointed out that this is "one more example of the incapacity of the Government of Ángel Víctor Torres." They add that it is "a new failure that demonstrates the null influence in front of the Government of Pedro Sánchez and the rest of the Autonomous Communities."
They also remember that the PSOE has been "announcing promises for four years to respond to the migratory phenomenon" and have not "been able to fulfill a single one."
Among them, they point to "the commitment to activate the mechanisms for the distribution of children arriving to the Islands. A commitment that remained "in nothing" because finally the Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres, "chose to bow his head in front of Madrid and the CCAA" instead of defending the rights of children who are cared for in a collapsed reception system.
They denounce that "once again the Government has failed miserably in the dialogue process, even with those territories in which it governs." They also assure that "the inaction and neglect of the State Government has only served to aggravate the situation in the Canary Islands."
They also point to "other breaches" in a matter such as "the reception and care of children", among them, the "agreement adopted" on May 25, 2021 in the Territorial Council of Social Rights for, if applicable, "the approval of the strategy for the integration of unaccompanied migrant girls, boys and adolescents", they acknowledge.
"A strategy to promote the care of migrant minors who are in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and Ceuta, which "did not go beyond a declaration of intentions and a press headline."
"The serious thing", insist from Coalición Canaria, is that the Territorial Council of Social Rights and the Government of Spain have left "the Islands alone in the management of a humanitarian drama that far exceeds the response that a territory like ours can give to hundreds of boys, more than three thousand since the last crisis of the Canary Route began."
The nationalists remind the PSOE, in addition, of the motion approved by the plenary of the Senate in March of last year to "promote a State Pact of all political forces to face the management of migratory flows in our country, guaranteeing the protection of the fundamental rights of migrants and the solidarity of the different autonomous territories", they recall.
A mechanism that "the Government of Pedro Sánchez has not tried to promote and to which the Government of Ángel Víctor Torres renounced from minute one", they concluded.
