CC fears that Puerto Naos will be "a new pier of shame" with the barracks to assist immigrants

The nationalists criticize the "improvisation, lack of planning and coordination" of the central government

August 12 2021 (20:39 WEST)
Oswaldo Betancort, during his speech in Parliament
Oswaldo Betancort, during his speech in Parliament

Coalición Canaria warns of “the improvisation, lack of planning and coordination” of the central government in the face of the new massive arrival of migrants to the Canary coasts. “It is as if in the last two years, after the terrible situation we have experienced, nothing had been learned and they only resigned themselves to the fact that everything would be repeated again”, says the national executive secretary of Migrations of CC and mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, 

Betancort points out that they are verifying how migrants die on the route to the Canary Islands and how, when they arrive, they continue to not be treated with dignity. As an example, he points to what is happening in Lanzarote, since prefabricated modules are being set up in Puerto Naos for the care of migrants "in the face of the already announced massive arrival of boats and canoes, anticipating what could become a new pier of shame as happened in Arguineguín”.

The CC deputy also considers that “it is shameful” that, given what is happening in the Canary Islands and more specifically in Lanzarote in recent weeks with the arrival of numerous migrants to the coasts, the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has not had “the decency” to personally come and see the situation experienced by the groups and entities that assist them, and who are raising the alarm about the lack of resources. In addition, he criticizes that he has not forced Pedro Sánchez to leave his holiday palace to take “a reality bath”.

Betancort points out that “that is the policy we are experiencing, that of photos and empty declarations, while a few meters away a very harsh reality of neglect, lack of resources and resources is imposed”. Thus, he recalled that the mechanisms that Lanzarote has to prevent deaths on the high seas on that Canary Islands route - which already has the terrible toll of 2,000 deaths as Caminando Fronteras has denounced - continue to not come into operation and are dismantled. “And as if we had not learned anything in the last two years, the errors of the past will continue to be repeated as a result of the lack of foresight and coordination”, he concludes.

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