The “lack of the Government’s immigration policy” is causing strong tensions between the central Executive, the autonomous communities and the city councils, which are not taken into account, denounced this Friday the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in an interview in Canal Sur Radio, where he criticized Pedro Sánchez’s changes in his position on immigration, who has gone from “hugging the Aquarius immigrants to leaving them at a bus stop.”
“We all remember how Sánchez, after the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy, went to the coasts of Levante to hug the immigrants who came on the Aquarius ship, which had had difficulties docking in other countries,” said Feijóo, “and has went from that to taking the immigrants who arrive to the Canary Islands coasts, and without speaking with the authorities that have to care for them, and without speaking with the Autonomous Communities that must take care of the minors, what it does is put them on planes and leaving them at bus stops or in other places in towns and cities in Spain”.
For Feijóo, what is happening with the transfer of immigrants to the peninsula reflects the “absolute lack of coordination and enormous improvisation” of the Government in regards to its immigration policy, which in his opinion “produces enormous tension with the mayors , the town councils and the presidents of the Autonomous Communities”.
For Alberto Núñez Feijóo, in situations like the current one, with the daily arrival of hundreds of immigrants to the Canary Islands, “the least that can be done is for the central government to sit down with autonomous communities and city councils to see how the problem is solved.”
In the opinion of the popular leader, it would be a matter, first, of trying to solve these migratory flows “at origin”, because an average of 300 or 400 migrants a day are arriving on the Canary Islands coasts, and “the Government’s ability to talk to the countries of origin, and try to stop these exoduses, which are often due to mafia businesses.”
Secondly, affirms the president of the PP, a “repatriation solution” must be sought for these immigrants in an irregular situation and “if necessary” transfer them to other autonomous communities, “to organize the humanitarian flow.”
For this reason, Alberto Núñez Feijóo highlights “the government’s immigration policy contradiction”, which is nothing other than, he said, “an absolute lack of immigration policy.”
The migration crisis was the subject of analysis this Friday in a meeting of the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, with the vice-secretaries of Institutional Affairs, Esteban González Pons, and of Social Policies and Demographic Challenge, Carmen Fúnez.
The meeting, which was held at the Genoa headquarters, was also attended by, among others, the Secretary of Social Affairs, Concepción Dancausa; the general secretary of the FEMP, Luis Martínez Sicluna, and the vice-counselor of the cabinet of the vice-presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands, Eduardo Antonio Hernández.
After the meeting, Cuca Gamarra demanded that the Government immediately convene the Sectoral Immigration Conference and establish a coordination plan between administrations to face the migration crisis that Spain is experiencing. Along the same lines as Feijóo, Gamarra disfigured the improvisation and way of acting of Sánchez, Marlaska and Escrivá in the migration crisis and denounced the lack of transparency with the autonomous communities and city councils, due to “the total absence of a migration policy.” of State”.
Gamarra indicated that the last Sectoral Conference was held in August 2018, and that the Socialist Government has not reactivated the delegated commission on immigration affairs, which they suppressed in 2020, nor has it responded to the Canary Islands’ request for a single command, which he describes as “incomprehensible and unacceptable.”
