Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres, has assured this Tuesday that a “better alternative” to the La Santa hostel, provisionally enabled by CC in the previous legislature for the immediate reception of unaccompanied immigrant minors.
This has been guaranteed when asked about the incidents registered this Sunday between users of this hostel and young people from the town of La Santa, a fight, he said, before which both he and the regional counselor for Social Rights, Noemí Santana (Podemos ); the Director General of Child and Family Protection, Iratxe Serrano (Podemos); the president of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Dolores Corujo (PSOE); and the mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machín (CC), have “made themselves available and intervened directly.”
“The proposal is that we look for a better alternative within the island to be able to accommodate unaccompanied minors”, asserted Torres who, however, has reproached CC for hastening to demand the immediate closure of this reception center, when considering that if it was opened it is because it is needed and that “what you have to do is help and support the measures that build a more supportive Canary Islands”.
Before participating in the commemoration of the 144th anniversary of the PSOE, the general secretary of the Canarian Socialists stated that his party defends that “a tremendously vulnerable population must be treated with dignity, which is also a minor, and that there is to do it in a balanced way, sharing between all the islands”.
In addition to lamenting “the xenophobic messages” that in circumstances of this type are usually poured against immigrants, in which the PSOE is not going to participate, Torres has assured that the Canarian government “always helps and others are the ones who put up problems in the path”.
The regional president has stressed that “the best option for Lanzarote” will be sought, while thanking the work carried out by the mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machín, and the president of the island’s Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, in the search for this commitment. EFE