The PP regional senator for the Balearic Islands Miquel Jerez This Tuesday, during the Senate control session, he denounced “the abandonment of the Spanish government in the face of migratory chaos in the Balearic Islands”. The people harshly questioned the fact that, despite the data, the minister Marlaška once again denied, in Parliament, the consolidated migratory route between Algeria and the Balearic Islands.
“Over the past seven days, almost a thousand migrants have reached the shores of the Balearic Islands. Among them, young people, children and pregnant women. The records were duplicated. We will close the year with more than five thousand migrants on our territory, “These figures show that there is a consolidated road and a comfortable access route for mafias that traffic people,” Jerez told the Senate.
In the second round, Senator PP assured that “This route exists because Spain does not have a clear immigration policy and because there is no way to fight against these avalanches. In the Balearics, 1,600 kilometers of coastline cannot be controlled with the boats we have. “We are clearly at a disadvantage.”
Jerez warned of the danger of repeating a situation similar to that of Barbate. In this sense, he recalled that a boat hit a Civil Guard boat and that the boss doused the agents with gasoline. “The mafias have already lost their fear and their agents are no longer protected. “They do everything they know and everything they can with the little they have.”
Jerez continues: “In the Balearics, you disappeared. The Government is not there and local administrations are exhausted, alone and abandoned. The Consell de Mallorca is overwhelmed. He asked the Spanish government for decommissioned facilities and the socialist mayor of Inca came to say that migrant miners do not have to be in these facilities, that they will be better off elsewhere. This is called disloyalty.
He also referred to the Ibiza Town Hall, which will cost eight million euros to protect the minors in its charge, and to the Formentera Town Hall, “which intends to restore its powers because it cannot “take care of so many minors”.
Jerez on Marlaska’s statements: “This has been a disappointing response that leaves us in a situation of absolute helplessness. A response that favors the mafias and makes fun of all these local and regional administrations which alone manage a real state problem.
“Denying the existence of a consolidated road is clumsy and stubborn. This government has lost common sense and a sense of reality. These statements confirm that in the fight against mafias and the management of minors we are more abandoned than ever. The government has disappeared,” he added.
“Mr. Minister, immigration does not belong to the person who receives it. Illegal immigration is a state problem that requires state policies. And the State is all of us. That is why I ask you to pay attention to the Balearic Islands, listen to Marga Prohens and change your attitude. I ask you to become a useful minister against the mafias, on par with autonomous communities like the Balearic Islands, punished by illegal immigration, even if you do not govern them. This is what we call loyalty to the state,” he concluded.
