The Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration plans to transfer groups of migrants arriving in the Canary Islands to Madrid to house them in Defense facilities located in the district of Carabanchel and in the municipality of Alcalá de Henares.
As reported by eldiario.es and sources from the department headed by José Luis Escrivá have confirmed to Efe, the Ministry of Defense has given up the facilities to decongest the reception network of the Canary Islands, saturated by the incessant arrival of cayucos. The goal is for both camps to be ready in two weeks.
In Carabanchel, the sources point out, the migrants will be welcomed in the General Arteaga barracks, of the Army, where it is expected to have 450 places, expandable.
The land and facilities donated by Defense join the centers managed by Inclusion with the support of several NGOs in different provinces, where hotels are also being set up for the emergency reception of sub-Saharan migrants who are arriving in the Canary Islands.
This October, more than 13,000 people have arrived in the archipelago, an unprecedented number since the so-called canoe crisis of 2006.
The transfers, Inclusion insist, follow the usual procedure, but several town councils and communities governed by the PP have shown their discomfort at the lack of information and have demanded collaboration from the Ministry.
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, indicated this Wednesday that on Tuesday he had a conversation with the Government delegate in the community, Francisco Martín, to find out the “number of immigrants” who are going to arrive in the capital and ask “that the corresponding measures be reinforced, where appropriate, to guarantee security and coexistence.”
“We are certainly not going to make a speech that is neither xenophobic nor racist, that is not understood in that key, but we are going to know how many people are expected to arrive in the city of Madrid, and the conditions for security and coexistence are guaranteed at all times in this city,” he added.
