At least two migrant women have been expelled this Thursday from the Mercedes de Pinto Insertion Center, the old women’s prison in Santa Cruz de Tenerife that has been converted into units for the care of migrants.
Although the Government Delegation confirms the arrest of one of them and the transfer of another to a support network when pregnant, from the NGO Caminando Fronteras they assure that there could be four or more migrants who this Thursday have been expelled from this center after that the National Police appear at the premises after the notice of the Red Cross, which denounced problems of coexistence and altercations. This NGO manages this center that was enabled to receive migrants at the beginning of the year after the visit to the Archipelago of the Minister of the Interior, Fernado Grande Marlaska, to preside over the bilateral Canary-State summit in which the migratory rebound was addressed.
According to some of the migrants received at this center and with whom Cadena SER has been able to speak, in recent days several of the migrant women with children who live in these dependencies have complained of the difficulties they have in obtaining diapers from their babies.
The intervention of the National Police has generated moments of tension among some of the migrants who live in these dependencies, some have even had to be treated for anxiety attacks.
For its part, the NGO Caminando Fronteras has requested an investigation in this regard. Its spokesperson, Helena Maleno, has assured that “the situation is quite complicated because the conditions are not good and the uncertainties are many. We have been told that there are women who have requested asylum and, for the rest, the center needs mediation from the administration public (…) so that reception conditions are dignified “.
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