Clavijo about the 1,200 asylum places for migrant minors in the Peninsula: “It is not worth us. They say when or say where”
The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has referred to the emergency declaration in the archipelago that will declare the Council of Ministers on Tuesday worth 40 million euros for the creation of 1,200 asylum places for migrant minors in the Peninsula. “It is not worth us because they do not say when those places will be in force, nor say where,” he said.
This has been expressed by the head of the Canarian Executive in an interview in RNE, where he has recognized that the decree is an “advance”, but he has also shaved the central government that they have passed “four months since the Supreme Court issued the first car, accepting a positive precautionary measure, that is, accepting a request from the Canary Islands”, to give protection to more than 1,000 minors who have requested asylum.
Clavijo has added that “today the Government of Spain has 946 files, 946 children who are in the international protection network and the derivation of not one of them has not begun.” “It’s hard to believe that a whole state is unable to refer at least 100, 200 children so that they can be treated properly,” he said.
The president of the Canary Islands has recognized that the steps to relocate children have been taken, “perhaps more slowly than desired.” However, he pointed out that we must go with “much caution” because the communities of the PP and Castilla-La Mancha have resorted to the constitutional the decree of the Government for the reception of migrant minors of the Canary Islands in other territories.
“Today I hope that in the end that decree will see the light and we can begin to make those derivations to other autonomous communities so that the minors are properly served from the end of August,” said Clavijo.
Asked for the reasons for the autonomies that have resorted to the decree, in whose negotiation it was personally involved, the Canarian President has affirmed that the arguments do not obey reality and that “that distribution contemplates scientific criteria prepared by professionals of the subject.” “That criticism does not obey beyond political criteria that they will want to establish or use minors as a political weapon. But, of course, it does not have any kind of rigor or scientific or academic or common sense,” the president insisted, who feels “disenchanted” with the central government and with the PP.
Clavijo has clarified that he is “disenchanted” with the Government of Spain and how he has acted, spending “the hot potato” from one another. “And I am disenchanted with the contempt that the Popular Party has shown those boys and those girls who really last tomorrow or in a few months may be arriving in Andalusia O Baleares,” he emphasized, and then claim the solidarity of all. (EP)
