The senator for Lanzarote and La Graciosa of the Popular Party, Joel Delgado, defended this Thursday in the Upper House the need to address the problem of irregular immigration to the islands from a global point of view and not exclusively reducing it to external surveillance systems (SIVE)
This is what he stated during his speech in the Interior Committee in the debate of the motion presented by CC requesting that the shadow zones of the SIVE be corrected. Although Delgado explicitly supported the initiative of the Popular Party, he acknowledged that it "is insufficient to face such a serious problem and the human drama that this problem implies."
"CC speaks in its initiative of the seriousness of the rebound when we speak of a migratory crisis as all NGOs point out; they speak of providing coverage to the dark areas of the radars and we speak and ask that the 10 radars that are out of service of the 12 that are on the islands be repaired," he said.
According to Delgado, the global strategy includes more aspects that are decisive such as "recovering a strategic joint effort against the mafias, coordinating the response with Frontex, reinforcing human and material resources in the eastern islands to control the trafficking of people and drugs, as well as improving and expanding the Civil Guard of the Sea also in Lanzarote and the execution of the 6 million euros to repair the SIVE that the government of the Popular Party left behind."
"We need a more forceful response from the Socialist Executive"
The representative of Lanzarote and La Graciosa in the Senate advanced that all these aspects are included in an initiative that will soon be debated in the Chamber because, he said, "you have forgotten in this motion the increase in budget allocated to the Canary Islands to care for unaccompanied foreign minors." "We need a more forceful response from the Socialist Executive and it seems that what CC has tried to do is simply to fulfill the formalities," he pointed out.
Delgado took the opportunity to point out to the Canarian nationalists the responsibility they have in what is happening in the islands as a consequence of their support for Pedro Sánchez. "These are the consequences of keeping a low profile, that afterwards the demands fall on deaf ears," lamented the senator.
