The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, stated this Monday that she considers that the central government transfers migrants from the Canary Islands “at night”, especially to autonomies and town councils governed by the PP, because “it needs the votes of the Canarian Coalition”.
“What is needed is to know what immigration policy the Government is going to have. I know that it needs the votes of the Canarian Coalition to be there at the forefront and to do the numbers, but you cannot buy problems in exchange for votes, of seats, so that you get the bills without measuring the consequences,” he denounced in an interview on ‘Onda Cero’, collected by Europa Press.
Ayuso has wondered what announcement is being given “to the mafias” when they are told that they can “send thousands of people to the Canary Islands, that the Government already sends them by plane to the Peninsula at night and eliminates the problem” .
This is an issue that, to the Madrid leader, seems “quite worrying” because the only thing it is demonstrating is that it is “even easier to do business with immigration” and not “treating the problem at source”, “placing the table to those countries of origin that are abandoning their people at sea to their fate”, nor speaking “with the European authorities to ask for help”. “At night, especially we have seen this this Christmas, they have been sending immigrants to different parts of Spain, especially to towns, municipalities, and communities where the PP governs and not the PSOE,” he then noted.
The head of the Madrid Executive has maintained that they are “delighted” to get to work to find the best solution for these people but has stressed that what cannot be done is “to give orders at night, without the local and regional authorities , who are the ones who have the most skills” in health or social matters, know “who they are, where they are from, how old they are” or “what problems they bring.”
“And then there are municipalities, as is happening to Alcalá de Henares, for example, that find thousands of people who are abandoned by the Government who, of course, then go through the municipality up and down, but they do not know who they are,” he said. He believes that society, especially in municipalities, likes to “get to know each other” and know who the neighbors are.
For Ayuso, “this lack of control by the Government causes completely anomalous situations, of abandonment of functions, and that must be addressed. “It seems to me to be an absolute responsibility,” he concluded.