The deputy for Lanzarote and La Graciosa, and island president of Nueva Canarias (NC), Yoné Caraballo, wants to respond to the statements of the president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, who, when asked in an interview about NC's rejection of installing tents on the docks to house unaccompanied migrant minors, replied that if "NC has alternatives to the tents, let them propose them."
Caraballo wants to remind, first of all, that "the rejection does not only come from NC, but from the immigration prosecutor of Las Palmas who spoke out against using these resources to treat minors, given that it would be violating the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Spanish Law on the Protection of Children, in addition to different social groups and NGOs that have also expressed their opposition to these practices."
In relation to Clavijo's justification that in the past legislature the government of progress had migrants on the docks, Caraballo understands that "precisely because of the accumulated experience of these years we should not make the same mistakes," mistakes, continues the deputy, "that CC and PP tortuously used in the past legislature to harshly attack the government of the PSOE and NC with demagogic arguments, as the mayor of CC in Mogán occasionally used in relation to the Arguineguín dock or Astrid Pérez in Arrecife."
"At NC we have always treated the migratory reality in a sensitive way, without demagoguery or opportunism, prioritizing, first, the well-being of the people who arrive and that we have to attend to in the most humane and guaranteeing way possible, knowing that the Canary Islands cannot be left alone in this attention," says Caraballo, who recalls that for this reason his political organization "proposed last year to the Island Council of Lanzarote and the Government of the Canary Islands to foresee new reception resources, since it is evident that we are no longer facing a phenomenon but a reality that will not cease."
Declaration of social emergency in Lanzarote
From the Canarian organization they still "do not understand" what is the purpose of the declaration of social emergency decreed in July by the president of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancort, if ultimately it does not guarantee the purpose of this, which is "to safeguard the right of the minor and make use of resources of the council susceptible to house the minors in an extraordinary situation."
"We are seeing a spurious use of the declaration of emergency, since they only serve to take out a press release and a photo and not to manage the problems that justify it," maintains the Canarian deputy, who recalls that there are currently several emergencies decreed, "the climate, the social, the energy and the housing, with practically no positive results."