On November 15, the Government Delegation notified the regional Government, through an email, of an expansion of the places in the two spaces intended for the reception of immigrants transferred from the Canary Islands, in Carabanchel and Alcalá de Henares, with 400 and 110 seats, respectively. The Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Presidency, and spokesman for the regional government, Miguel Ángel García, has shown his indignation after receiving the news. The Madrid official has highlighted the “migratory chaos” that we are experiencing and the “lack of control and effective measures put in place by the central government to alleviate a situation that has continued for too long.”
The same thing happened on October 16. Through an email notification, the Government Delegation announced that 105 places would be opened in Alcalá and another 108 in Carabanchel. This means that in just one month the beds in these two centers have doubled, public state facilities that were created to house adult immigrants arriving from the Canary Islands.
Then the vice mayor and councilor for Security of Madrid, Inma Sanz, assured that the City Council had received this extension with “indignation and surprise”, which, as she said, “came without a single communication from the Government Delegation in the Community ».
Sanz stated that they had been aware of the situation from what they read in the press: “A policy of these characteristics cannot be made in this way.” They also explained that before they received a weekly email in which they talked about the number of people who were in that center, although they did not know and do not know “those who enter, those who leave, where the latter go or if there were minors.” “Enough of treating the administrations like this,” the vice mayor said then, at the same time that she expressed that they are then “the ones who have to respond with their social policies” after these decisions.
For this reason, García reiterates his concern about the saturation of these macrocamps which, according to estimated calculations by the regional government, already have more than 3,250 places. A month ago the estimate was 2,700. From the regional Executive they emphasize that it is “paradoxical and cynical that the department headed by Francisco Martín Aguirre questioned from the first moment the implementation of the new first reception center for minors in La Cantueña, in Fuenlabrada, which has 99 places, perfectly adjusted to legal requirements; while the Government of Pedro Sánchez continues to expand places in these macrocamps without any forecast.
More transparency
The counselor has asked the delegate for the number of places enabled in these two centers and in Pozuelo de Alarcón, as well as the rest of the places enabled, the number of people who have passed since its launch and the future actions that will be carried out from this department along with the central government. In Sol they want to “put a stop to the serious migration crisis that our country is experiencing through the so-called Canary Islands route, and in particular, in our autonomous community through the Madrid-Barajas international airport.”
The counselor has also asked Pedro Sánchez to reach agreements with the countries of origin and with the European Union to put in place real measures that allow control of irregular immigration that arrives in our country. Also, it should provide the autonomies and city councils with the necessary economic means and resources, “since they are the ones who have to care for these people.”
As the counselor points out, the current migration crisis that Spain has been experiencing for a year, including Madrid – because it is the capital and has the main gateway, the Barajas airport – has required setting up a center in the shortest possible time to decongest the minor protection network: “So far this year, the Community of Madrid has assisted more than 2,000 unaccompanied minors.”
The centers in Alcalá and Carabanchel were set up in October of last year on military land transferred by the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration in response to the wave of cayucos with hundreds of people that were arriving on the Spanish coasts, especially from Canary Islands.
Technicians from the Immigration Department were in charge of inspecting these movements to choose these two as the first, which were enabled due to the lack of reception places that the migratory wave has caused.
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