Although it has not specified which ones, the Secretary of State for Migration, Hana Jalloul, has recognized in Day by day with Pedro Blanco who the Government of Spain is already looking for housing alternatives to schools and institutes where migrants arriving in the Canary Islands by boat they are in quarantine or in humanitarian care. And it is that the next recovery of the school activity requires to enable other humanitarian reception spaces. However, Jalloul has insisted that, although “quarantines are delegated powers in the autonomous communities”, the central Executive “has offered to collaborate.”
There are currently around thirty publicly owned facilities on the Islands to accommodate migrants. And although there is no confirmation yet, In recent weeks the possibility of setting up five Defense centers has been considered in Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Tenerife. “We are already working on housing solutions and looking for other devices to make transfers when educational activity recovers,” the Secretary of State said.
Jalloul, while regretting that the Junta de Andalucía is denying the realization of PCR to more than 400 people without humanitarian reception, also acknowledged the discrepancies with the Government of the Canary Islands regarding the reception protocol for migrants arriving in the Islands in irregular boats and that has caused some, who were recently rescued near the coast of Gran Canaria, to spend several days under Red Cross tents at the Arguineguín dock. Still, he acknowledged that recently a “shared management protocol” has been agreed between the central and regional administrations after the meetings between President Ángel Víctor Torres and the ministers José Luis Escrivá and Carolina Darias, since “the reception system is the responsibility of the State.”
During this 2020 with the increase in the migratory flow to the Islands and the forecast that it will continue in the coming months, several NGOs such as CEAR or the Red Cross have demanded a dignified reception protocol for migrants upon arrival on Canarian soil.
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