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The Senator of the Canarian Coalition (CC) for the island of Tenerife, Ricardo Melchior Navarro, accused the Minister of the Interior this Wednesday of acting with "very serious passivity" and of applying "ineffective" policies to stop the massive arrival of irregular immigrants from the Mauritanian coasts to the Canary Archipelago.
In the government control session held in the Upper House, the Tenerife senator blamed the State Government for having acted with "passivity", despite the fact that the National Intelligence Center (CNI) alerted the Ministry of the Interior last December of the "dramatic" consequences that would derive from the change of route of the boats and canoes due to the transfer of organized mafias to Mauritania due to the shielding of the Moroccan border.
"The Canarian people", Ricardo Melchior told the Minister of the Interior, "demands that your department apply effective policies and act with the urgency that this matter demands in order to achieve satisfactory results in the treatment and solution of the same".
The CC senator warned the Minister of the Interior that "the immigrant detention centers in the Canary Islands are at their maximum capacity and the centers for minors are collapsed, with the aggravating factor that they cannot be repatriated because the Government of Spain has not given the appropriate orders. And, in addition, the hospitals of the Islands are also collapsed as their work is multiplied by the attention to the immigrants who arrive on our coasts".
SIVE IN LANZAROTE
The Minister of the Interior responded to the Tenerife senator, with regard to the implementation of the Integrated External Surveillance System (SIVE) in the Canary Islands, that "Fuerteventura already has four fixed stations and this year it is planned to complete the deployment in Lanzarote with an expenditure of more than three and a half million euros and start the same procedure in Gran Canaria with an expenditure of more than one million euros".
In this regard, he added that "we are also complementing the fixed systems with mobile surveillance units that allow us to adapt to changes in migratory flows and routes. In the case of the island of Tenerife, it already has a mobile unit and another one is planned to be sent soon as a complement, without prejudice to the fact that in the future we will study the implementation of fixed units both in Tenerife and in the rest of the islands of the western province".
