The president of the PP Lanzarote, Astrid Pérez, has denounced the “hypocritical and unfair” attitude of Pedro Sánchez's Government in immigration matters and, especially, with regard to the distribution of unaccompanied immigrant minors among the Autonomous Communities and the management of asylum seekers who remain in the Canary Islands.
Pérez considers it an “absolute mockery” to the people of the Canary Islands that the central Executive, while reforming the Immigration Law to impose quotas on the autonomous communities, refuses to directly assume the guardianship of more than a thousand minor asylum seekers who remain in the archipelago. “It is shameful that the Spanish Government hides behind the lack of resources to justify its inaction, when the islands, with practically no resources, have been enduring unsustainable migratory pressure for years, providing coverage to almost 6,000 minors,” she denounced.
The leader of the Lanzarote Popular Party has recalled that 42 days have already passed since the Supreme Court issued a final ruling that obliges the State to assume its responsibility for these minors, without any effective measures having been adopted to date. “This breach of a court ruling demonstrates the absolute contempt of the PSOE for the rule of law and for the fundamental rights of these minors,” Pérez stressed.
From the Popular Party, it is insisted that immigration should be addressed as a State matter and with a coordinated, serious and loyal approach with the most affected regions, as is the case of the Canary Islands. “You cannot ask for solidarity from the rest of Spain when the Government itself hides behind excuses and leaves thousands of children and adolescents stranded on the islands,” she stated.
Finally, Astrid Pérez demanded an immediate response from the Ministry of Inclusion and President Sánchez, whom she accused of governing “on the basis of headlines and propaganda, while leaving the people of the Canary Islands and migrant minors in the most absolute defenselessness.” “A double standard and a total lack of coherence that shows the Government's null will to resolve this problem and that is evident in each of the meetings of the sectoral conference. If they really wanted to do it, they would have already done it,” she concluded.
