The general secretary of the Popular Party of Lanzarote, María Tovar, accuses the Socialist Party of making "a manipulative" use of immigrant minors in the Canary Islands to end up sealing with Junts an agreement for the modification of article 35 of the Immigration Law through a Royal Decree Law.
"From the first moment we said that if the Sánchez Government really wanted to modify the immigration law, it did not need the PP because it could do so through a royal decree law, and time has unfortunately proved us right." "All that the PSOE has been doing during all this time is playing in a partisan way with an extremely delicate and sensitive problem with the sole objective of breaking the pact that Coalición Canaria and the Popular Party maintain in the Government of the Canary Islands," says María Tovar, who stresses that until now there has been no real will to solve the problem of the almost 6,000 foreign minors who are under the tutelage of the Autonomous Community in the islands.
"In the end, the political charade that Minister Angel Victor Torres has been doing during the last year, playing with the Canary Islands and the Canarians, is revealed. In fact, it was not until Sánchez saw his seat in Moncloa in danger due to Puigdemont's demands that what until a few weeks ago was impossible became possible," insists the secretary of the Popular Lanzaroteños.
From the Popular Party, they trust that the extraordinary referral of minors is being considered under objective criteria and with the corresponding economic endowment. "What would be unacceptable is that after ceding migratory powers and border control to Catalonia, Junts will also impose criteria that play in their favor and against the rest of the communities, so we will be vigilant to the fine print of the agreement that a PSOE has sealed that has become an expert in deception."
Tovar trusts that now also "it will be decided that the guardianship of the minors falls on the State or, otherwise, in a year we will be debating what to do with the minors who have continued to arrive, because unfortunately this will not stop until a true border control policy and international agreements are developed to stop irregular immigration."
