The Ministry of Inclusion has called for this Tuesday afternoon a meeting with councilors of the autonomous communities and representatives of the main cities. He summons them to inform them of the management of the current immigration crisis. At the meeting, which will be telematic, will provide attendees with a “situation photo” of the influx to the Canary Islands and the distribution of migrants throughout the country, government sources confirm. The delivery of figures from the Executive will come in the face of political use and complaints of disloyalty and lack of information made by leaders of the PP and Vox since last week.
Inclusion was preparing this Monday for the meeting while the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, was traveling to Senegal to “strengthen”, according to the same sources, the cooperation of that country in the attempt to stop the departure of cayucos. The trip occurs in the middle of a rain of racist and xenophobic hoaxes on social networks that, in Spain, attract the attention of the Security Forces.
On Monday afternoon, only two communities were left to confirm their attendance at the Inclusion event. Andalusia, Catalonia and Extremadura they had ratified; They are, in that order, the ones that have received the most migrants so far from the Canary Islands, with Andalusia exceeding 2,000 and Catalonia reaching 1,878 last week. Extremadura receives more than other communities with a larger budget.
Extremaduran quarrel
The Extremaduran case explains the composition of the meeting: not only affected ministries will participate, but also the five main cities (Madrid, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza and Barcelona; the mayor Jaume Collboni has confirmed its presence), the main Canary Islands towns and municipalities that, like Mérida, are destinations for important contingents of migrants.
In the capital of Extremadura, the city council has given an old youth hostel to receive more than the 200 it already houses. It is a case similar to that of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), a city also invited, where 300 to 400 are about to be transferred to the conditioning of a barracks. Defense lends Inclusion three military installations: in addition to Alcalá, in Cartagena and in the Madrid neighborhood of Carabanchel.
Extremadura is also a paradigm of I use this crisis as a political ring. On October 17, the spokesperson for the Board that governs the PP with Vox, Victoria Bazaga, showed the collaboration of its Executive to welcome migrants in “coordination” with the central government. A week later, and after opening the Madrid Isabel Diaz Ayuso the offensive, her party partner and president of Extremadura, Maria Guardiola, has cried out against “institutional disloyalty” of the central government and its “lack of coordination.”
Catalan Pax
Contrast that climate with the Catalan experience. Last Friday, the delegate of the central government in Catalonia met, Carlos Prietowhat Interior calls “operational group”. Representatives of the Department of Equal of the Generalitat, the Federation and the Catalan Association of Municipalities, the Barcelona City Council, the NGOs ACCEM and Red Crossthe Servei d’Emergències Mèdiques (SEM), the Mossos, the Police and the Civil Guard.
This week is Blanes (La Selva, Girona) the Catalan town with the most migrants -400- diverted from the human wave that breaks in the Canary Islands. The Barcelona town of Calella (Maresme) already houses 320. Contrast its data with that of El Masnou (6) and Barcelona (18). Lleida capital has 54 and the city of Tarragona Four. Five.
The data may change as the crisis evolves. In fact, the figure varies every day, since the migrants sheltered by Inclusion are not confined: while their reception, residence or return is resolved. They have freedom of movement. A still undetermined percentage of Senegalese who arrived in the Canary Islands in July in the first phase of this crisis They are no longer in Spain, police sources say. The Senegalese arrive with the objective of continue trip to Francewhere they hope to have better language and economic accommodation.
urgently
So many arrivals are managed (on October 15 there were already 23,537, 90% men, landed in cayuco in the Canary Islands) with the same emergency procedure that Interior and Inclusion developed before the flood of ukrainians displaced by war. On October 1, those originating from the invaded country and registered in Spain were already 211,408.
Due to the exhaustion of the basic reception network, Inclusion is resorting to rent hotels, as he already did with more than 10,000 Ukrainians. That explains that In Catalonia, for example, sub-Saharans are sent more to the coast urbanized than in the rural interior. Inclusion is pulling for this crisis hotel contacts which he already did when thousands of people were entering Spain fleeing the European war.
Migrants arrive in Catalonia from the Canary Islands on flights that land in the El Prat airport. After the trip, which they made with police officers and NGO volunteers, they are derivatives in coaches. The Mossos guard the temporary stay points, in anticipation of incidents of rejection that, for the moment, have not been reported anywhere in Spain.
Rain of hoaxes
Inclusion distributes migrants to relieve pressure in the Canary Islands while Interior tries to close the gap in Senegal. Marlaska and the heads of the Police and Civil Guard deployment in that country sat down this Monday in Dakar with the Senegalese Interior Minister Sidiki Kabaand its police and naval commands.
The Spanish minister donated in Dakar six drones to reinforce the detection of cayucos that set sail for the Canary Islands. Marlaska has asked Kaba to “act more quickly” and avoid “more innocent deaths at sea”. He said it, by the way, when autumn is putting an end to the calms in that area of the Atlantic, increasing the danger of the crossing.
Spain now has deployed 33 guards and 5 police officers, a CN-235 plane, four boats, a helicopter and 13 SUVs in Senegal. As of October 29, as reported by Interior, they had been 7,132 people intercepted who were heading to the Canary Islands from somewhere in that country.
The data contrasts with the misinformation. As the migration crisis worsened, a soup of xenophobic hoaxes. He has been reborn fake of the mother ship, according to which migrants travel on a large boat, which releases them near the Canary Islands so that they end up in cayuco.
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The phenomenon has caught the attention of the Security Forces, who observe it in anticipation that it may disturb public order. Among the agitators, according to police sources, there are guards and police officers, as well as union activists.