The president of the Popular Party of Lanzarote, Astrid Pérez, has shown her "frontal rejection" of the massive regularization process of more than one million immigrants promoted by the Government of Pedro Sánchez, an initiative that, as she has warned, "is born without guarantees, without planning and without taking into account its effects on the current public services system of our country".
The popular leader has insisted that this initiative arrives “without economic memory, without forecast of the impact on public services and without previously reinforcing the control mechanisms,” something she considers especially serious. “It is hidden from no one that in territories like Canarias, where we already bear an enormous pressure on housing, healthcare or social services, decisions of this type only contribute to further straining a system that is already at its limit,” she has warned.
Astrid Pérez expresses her “deep concern about the consequences that it will have on the maintenance of the welfare state a possible collapse of these public services due to the fact that the State Government has not adopted any prior measure nor contemplates additional funding for their reinforcement”.
“We are clearly facing an improvised measure, one more absurdity from the Sánchez Government because the regularization of hundreds of thousands of people cannot be faced in barely three months without having done the homework to ensure that essential public services will have response capacity”.
“Humanity, legality and security”
On the other hand, Astrid Pérez has also questioned the lack of coherence of the Government in migratory matters, pointing out that “one cannot speak of regularization without first acting on border control nor improving resources to manage files and guarantee legal certainty”.
"What is not reasonable is to speed up to the maximum a massive regularization while the legal channels to come to work in Spain continue to be slow, bureaucratic, and full of obstacles. It is a deeply unfair message for those who do things well," he added.
In this regard, he has defended that any migratory policy must be based on “the balance between humanity, legality and security”, avoiding measures that could generate “undesired effects or comparative grievances”.
Likewise, has warned that decisions of this type can convey “a mistaken message” that encourages irregular immigration and favors the networks that traffic in people, “putting human lives at risk, something that in the Canary Islands we know too well”.
In view of this, the island president of the PP has once again defended the need for a “serious, orderly and coordinated” migratory policy, which includes the reinforcement of border control, effective management of migratory flows, and “individualized” regularization processes, with clear, objective and verifiable criteria.
