The end of summer and the return to political normality have not brought about any change in terms of themes. Again, The arrival of migrants in Galicia has been a topic of discussion this Wednesday between the Xunta and the Government Delegation in the community, with an appearance included by the central Government. From the dance of figures on the number of refugees that Galicia will welcome to the financing to face the humanitarian crisis that the Canary Islands are experiencing with Ceuta and Melilla, the reproaches continued from one side to the other throughout the day.
It all started at an event in the morning where the Minister for Social Policy and Equality, Fabiola Garciaresponded to the government’s announcement in which an allocation of 35 million was established to the autonomous communities for the care of 400 unaccompanied minors, distributed from the Canary Islands, in the Council of Ministers. A figure of which 1.5 million correspond to Galicia, insufficient to take on the support and schooling processaccording to the head of social policy. For which he is asking for “fair and necessary” funding.
“We will receive in Galicia around one and a half million euros to take care of 26 unaccompanied minors, but we must demand more funding because it only covers one year, once all these minors have arrived,” said Fabiola García. All this after at least 15 minors were identified among the more than 800 people already welcomed by the community, when initially the Government Delegation had announced that they were adults – and that there would be 700, while waiting for other migrants to continue. arrival in Galicia. A fact for which the councilor affirmed, as did the president of the Xunta, “Clarity” in the reception processbut not before recalling that minors must “be automatically integrated” into the protection system and be supported “until adulthood” by the communities.
“Tests pending”
Some statements reproduced a few hours later by the government delegate in Galicia, Pierre Blancowho defended the information transmitted to the regional government on the movement of migrants as “clear, punctual, fluid, complete and at all levels.” “We are facing a migratory and humanitarian crisis, it is not something we can predict months in advance,” Blanco said.
However, he acknowledged that among the 800 people welcomed by the Galician community, there may be minors who have been “neglected”, while questioning the process of identifying the 15 minors detected by the Xunta. “He said there were 15 but they were awaiting testing,” said the Government delegate, who also told the media after being questioned that he had contacted the Prosecutor’s Office “to find out if they knew that there were minors left unattended.” since he He had “no information of any kind”.
“All the information, absolutely all the collaboration and we are talking about a health emergency,” concluded Blanco in Castro de Rei (Lugo), after his visit to the facilities of the company Innolact, beneficiary of Perte Agro.
Inconclusive figures
But the Department of Social Policy was quick to qualify the government delegate’s statements, indicating that the Xunta “is absolutely certain” that the 13 migrants identified were in reality minors. “The tests were carried out according to the established protocol, or because Some have documents that corroborate that they are minors “major,” they clarified to the regional government.
Similarly, the Department of Social Policy dishonoured the government delegation for having, at the time, accused the Forecasts indicate that there will be more than a thousand displaced people in the coming days. A response that also does not forget another point of disagreement between the representative of the central government and the Xunta: the assumption of the costs related to the care of displaced persons from the Canary Islands to alleviate the saturation suffered by the services of the archipelago. Although it is clear that all the costs of travel, maintenance and care of adults are borne by the Spanish Government, Jurisdiction changes in the case of unaccompanied minorswhose protection is the responsibility of the autonomous communities.
The Xunta will therefore have to take care of these 15 minors, in addition to those who will arrive in the future, while the information provided so far by the government delegation was that the implicit costs of taking care of the 800 migrants were your exclusive responsibility. , since, At first, those who had already arrived were adults.
