The spokesperson for the Canarian Coalition in the Congress of Deputies, Cristina Valido, insisted this Tuesday on the need to "respond urgently" to the current migratory situation occurring in the Canary Islands. For this reason, the CC deputy has valued the proposal to reform the Immigration Law that makes possible the "effective referral" of the thousands of unaccompanied migrant minors, but has insisted on the approval of a decree-law by the Government of Spain to "not resort to more excuses or delays in the face of an enormous challenge that, above all, is humanitarian."
In this scenario, Cristina Valido has reiterated that the migratory situation in the Canary Islands "is the responsibility of the Spanish State and also of the European Union because the problems of lack of resources to face the numerous arrival of migrants directly appeals to state and European responsibilities." In the case of unaccompanied migrant minors, the Canarian nationalist deputy points out that "no one can ignore that these human beings have inalienable rights that are internationally recognized, and therefore, I do not understand the fear of a legal reform that is also done to comply with human rights and, particularly, to comply with international rights recognized for children."
In this area, Cristina Valido has emphasized the "state political responsibility" because, she pointed out, "the Congress of Deputies and its 350 deputies are also responsible for ensuring that the children who are already in the State, having arrived however they arrived, see all their rights fulfilled and respected." "And in this area," the spokesperson emphasized, "all the deputies who are part of Congress cannot turn their backs on this humanitarian drama that is currently being experienced in the Canary Islands because this situation challenges us all and the response with effective means that we are capable of putting into operation is the responsibility of the entire state territory."
Cristina Valido has valued the reform of the Immigration Law as "a necessary and important first step" in the face of the current situation in the Canary Islands. "The political agreement reached with a bill is necessary because it also means that territories that today reject a consensus agreement for the referral of unaccompanied migrant minors may need, perhaps tomorrow, to activate this distribution mechanism so that migrant minors without adult company who arrive in their autonomous communities are shared by other territories that do not complete the assigned quota. Because what the Canary Islands are now demanding, territories of the State located in the Mediterranean such as Catalonia or Andalusia, and even Madrid, where so many minors arrive, may need tomorrow."
Faced with this situation, the spokesperson for the Canarian Coalition in Congress has lamented that "we continue to hear interested arguments that are only absurd excuses for not attending to unaccompanied migrant minors as international laws that protect the rights of minors demand and oblige us to do." For this reason, Cristina Valido has appealed to "all the deputies who are in this House, after having been elected by the citizens, and they were also elected in the two provinces of the Canary Islands, we have the political and moral obligation to live up to the circumstances of humanitarian emergency" in the islands.
"Because we consider that it is necessary to reform article 35 of the Immigration Law, but even more necessary and urgent" is a decree-law with which we can respond "without further delay and without further excuses to a humanitarian reality of urgency in the Canary Islands," Cristina Valido insisted, because "the almost six thousand unaccompanied migrant minors who are currently collapsing the reception resources in the islands do not have time to wait for a bill that will take a long process for its approval and subsequent entry into force. They are minors and as boys and girls they cannot wait for months for this measure for distribution throughout the territory of the Spanish State to enter into force in an effective way."
