The mayor of Alcalá de Henares, Judith Piquet (PP), This Wednesday, he displayed his rejection of the “lack of institutional loyalty and political transparency” of the government of Pedro Sanchez by expanding the Alcalá de Henares immigrant reception center by 105 additional places without notifying the city’s Complutense municipal team.
Piquet described as “absolute disloyalty” the behavior of the government delegate who “systematically lies and hides information “to the residents of Alcalá on the capacity increases that make the immigration center secret.” The mayor assures that the central government does not care at all about how it can affect the citizens of Alcalá, the public services of the City Hall and the immigrants themselves if this number increases exponentially without increasing, from the In the same way, the services and benefits that the Spanish government dedicates to immigrants.
Piquet also stressed that the establishment of this center for immigrants was surrounded by disloyalty and lies on the part of the government delegate, “one after the other and systematically, with premeditation and bad intentions, both regarding the capacity of the center as well as the duration of this center which they described as temporary.
“At the beginning they told us there would be around 50 people, then they talked about around 600 immigrants, then they went to 1,200, 1,300 and so they systematically increased the capacity until reaching the 1,580 places what’s going on right now. They also told us that this resource was provisional, but today it is demonstrated that what the government wants to do in Alcalá in a way Permanent internment center quite deficient and without means in which the conditions do not exist for its inhabitants to have a dignified life”, explained the city councilor.
He also highlighted that, since the opening of this center, according to ministry data, more than 6,100 people have passed through it, with a very high number of people who have verbalized their presence. minors. “What the government delegate also told us would not happen,” he emphasizes.
Finally, Piquet criticized the immigration policy of the government of Pedro Sánchez as “non-existent, contrary to human rights and if a government of another political tendency did what the central government is doing, we would take hands to head.”
In addition, the mayor of the municipality of Complutense emphasized that information was requested on the nationalities of all the people hosted in the center and that now they no longer wish to provide this data as they did before.
Community of Madrid
The Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Local Administration, Miguel Ángel García Martínalso criticized the fact that the central government will expand the places in the migrant centers of Alcalá de Henares and Carabanchel (Madrid) while the socialists attack the center of La Cantueña, in Fuenlabrada, which they authorized from the regional government .
This is what he declared during his first appearance at the press conference following the Government Council which was held this Wednesday at the Royal Post Office. García Martín revealed to what extent the places in these centers will be expanded. Specifically, There will be 108 more in Carabanchel and 105 in Alcalá de Henares. This expansion exceeds the total number of places available at the La Cantueña center in Fuenlabrada, which has a total of 99 authorized places.
Finally, the advisor criticized the government of Pedro Sánchez for “doing absolutely nothing” and not “putting an end to the migratory chaos that the country is experiencing”.
