The Congress plenary will vote this Wednesday in favor, with a broad majority, that the Government agrees with the Canary Islands on the extraordinary financing that the healthcare for migrants who arrive on the coasts of the archipelago entails.
The majority of the groups in the chamber, including the PP and PSOE, have announced this Tuesday that in the vote this Wednesday they will contribute their votes to pass a motion from the Canarian Coalition, debated this Tuesday, which demands that the central government assume its powers in migratory matters in the Atlantic archipelago, as the "southern border of the State", which the autonomous community currently "bears alone".
The motion, a consequence of an urgent interpellation that was debated in December, has been defended by the deputy of the Canarian Coalition, Cristina Valido, who in her speech has criticized both the PSOE and the PP for "throwing in each other's faces" the political use of migrant minors without ending up solving the problem.
"It is necessary that we face now that elephant in the room that everyone sees, but about which they do not want to act," demanded Valido, who warned that "this is a phenomenon that is not going to change, but is going to increase" and has stated that "the Canary Islands do not have to assume alone a cost that the State is obliged to respond to."
The PP deputy Jimena Delgado-Taramona, dedicated her entire speech, before announcing her group's vote in favor, to criticizing the Government, which in her opinion has the Canarians "completely abandoned, left to the hand of God."
She stated that public services are "saturated" and it is the Government of the Canary Islands - a coalition of CC and PP in which this party manages, among other areas, health - that is facing the problems "alone".
Delgado-Taramona has complained that Pedro Sánchez's executive wants to "exclude Catalonia and the Basque Country from the distribution of minors" who arrive in the Canary Islands, that it "still does not want to request the deployment of Frontex" to control this migratory route and that the Minister of Territorial Policy, the Canarian Ángel Víctor Torres, "is obsessed only with breaking the autonomous government pact and not with facing the problem".
Just the opposite of the socialist Luc Andre Diouf, who pointed out that who is stopping the agreement for the distribution of migrant minors is the PP, while the Government "assumes its responsibility with data and transparency, facilitating truthful information to generate trust and with empathy so that hatred disappears."
Diouf said he agreed "fully" with the CC deputy that "migrants are going to continue arriving" and has defended that "the management of these flows can only be done from respect for dignity and human rights."
He has stressed that "the commitment of the socialists to universal access to healthcare is unwavering" and that they will continue to care for people "whether they have papers or not", on principle and for reasons of public health.
He has also blamed the PP for the lack of material and human resources in Canarian healthcare, which "is not because of the immigrants who arrive on the islands" but the consequence of the lack of investment from the autonomous executive.
Faced with the majority that will support the motion, Vox has shown itself against it because in its opinion it would contribute to the "call effect" and would consolidate the "sinister success" of the mafias that traffic with migrants.
