The Government announced this Friday that it will definitely not build a camp to welcome immigrants on the land of the Armilla air base (Granada) that the Ministry of Defense had made available to the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration for a center that would house up to 1,200 people. As explained in Granada by the Government delegate in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández, because the land “does not meet the conditions.”
Last week, the Alhendín City Council, the municipality where the land where the center was to be located is, received an official notification from the public company Tragsa announcing the start of the works. Immediately, his mayor, Francisco Rodríguez (PP), expressed his opposite position. The same happened with the mayor of Armilla, Loli Cañavate (PSOE). To this contrary position have been added town councils of surrounding municipalities and an almost daily succession of demonstrations, municipal plenary sessions and other public actions rejecting the construction. The Government delegate in Andalusia, on the other hand, has assured that what has weighed on the decision to stop the project has been “the technical and social criteria from the point of view of the needs of the immigrants.”
The reception camp, Fernández explained, was to be “a temporary facility to assist immigrants” arising from “the urgent need to address a humanitarian crisis that causes many immigrants to arrive in the Canary Islands and that is straining the national care system. which is already at 85% saturation and with the expectation that arrivals will increase with the good weather.” The camp was “intended to temporarily house and provide a solution to those who need humanitarian aid” or time to carry out the “administrative processing to manage their requests for asylum or international protection.” The representative of the Government in Andalusia has insisted that the center will be built in any case in other facilities “that have a better guarantee to cover the needs” required by immigrants, without detailing that new location.
Last week, Alhendín City Council received notification of the start of work on a camp for 1,200 immigrants and Armilla, the population center closest to the plot, confirmed to this newspaper that the transfer from Defense to Migrations had become effective. . However, after the publication of information in the media about the construction, both the subdelegate of the Government in Granada, Antonio Montilla, and sources from the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration assured that it was just an idea that was being evaluated.
The refusals of the town councils of Alhendín and Armilla have been based on urban planning regulations and also on the fact that both town councils understood that it was not a suitable location to accommodate 1,200 migrants. According to the mayors, local urban planning legislation classifies the 10 hectares of land transferred to Migrations as rural land, which prevents construction on them.
Finally, various citizen demonstrations also brought social discontent to the table. The popular Francisco Rodríguez complained of “disloyalty” of the Government because he assured that he had not been warned by the Ministry of Migration nor had “the mandatory municipal permits” been requested. This Friday, with the Government's resignation already known, Rodríguez “celebrated” the decision and thanked “the union between town councils and, above all, with the people and residents of the area”, because, he said, “they have been the “who have legally demanded a change of location from the Government of Spain.”
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