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A new version of the Government on the controversial transfers of immigrants from the Canary Islands to the Peninsula has compromised Fernando Grande-Marlaska's attempt to elude his involvement in them.

Either because he declared at the same time in public that this was something that was not going to happen and well because the current argument of the Ministry of the Interior is that he has not participated in said trips.

However, the Secretary of State for Migration,

Hana Jalloul

, revealed this Friday that the transfers are being carried out "in collaboration" with other ministries and that they are justified by the "situation of vulnerability" of the migrants.

It is precisely this dance of versions about the transfers, as well as the fact that the flights have been made in "secret", "at night" and without notifying the regional and local authorities, which has the opposition absolutely outraged.

"They have all lied to us," the PP has denounced, which has stressed that it is "very serious" and that it demands that the ministers involved "render accounts."

The passage of the Secretary of State for Migration this Friday through the Senate to talk about the General State Budgets has provoked a debate about the delicate situation in the Canary Islands and about the management that the Government is doing in the face of an increase of more than a "1,000%" of the migrants arrived in the archipelago.

"We work and make transfers"

Faced with questions from the opposition, Jalloul has defended the controversial flights to the Peninsula and has indicated that they have been "much less" than the 200 people who are talking about.

"We work and make transfers within the framework of the vulnerable situation of people, which is my competence, and in collaboration with the ministries," said the Secretary of State.

In his opinion, a health problem cannot be produced with the arrival of these immigrants, because he has ensured that all people who enter "through any point of the border" have a coronavirus PCR test "done" according to a protocol that is in force. .

However, it has not detailed if there is any type of follow-up afterwards or if any test is done to detect Covid-19 before boarding those flights, after days or weeks in the Canary Islands.

Jalloul has denounced that linking immigration and health problems has a "xenophobic tinge".

"Why do you wonder about whether the migrants carried CRP? Because they are migrants? Or do we talk about the rest of the people who traveled on the plane? We have to be very careful with these things," he told the PP and Vox.

Likewise, the Secretary of State for Migration has proclaimed that the situation in the Canarian port of

Arguineguín

"has been solved" and that possible lack of coordination has already been resolved.

"They have lied to us"

However, the opposition's diagnosis has been totally opposite, describing the management as "disastrous" and denouncing that the Canary Islands had been left "totally helpless" due to a late reaction.

The PP senator

Sofía Acedo

has reproached the head of Migration for the use of "lies as a political weapon" and, specifically, has targeted the ministers Grande-Marlaska and José Luis Escrivá for saying that they "did not know" about the transfers .

"If you knew it, the ministers knew it and then they lied to us," he reproached.

Acedo has warned of the "lack of control" and the "inability" of the Government to deal with the situation and of having abandoned the municipalities.

"It had been a long time since so much incompetence was seen in public management," he has settled.

On the part of Vox, Senator

Jacobo González-Robatto

has demanded explanations to know who is behind the transfers "without health or police control."

"The solution is not in dispersion, but in deportation," he stressed.

Thus, the Vox senator has criticized the "indulgence" of the Executive and has wondered who is controlling the whereabouts of the immigrants transferred to the Peninsula.

Criticism of the canaries

Jalloul has also heard reproaches from the Canarian senators.

Fernando Clavijo

, of the Canary Coalition, has lamented the "lack of coordination, the inability of the Government and the lack of transparency" in the decisions it is taking and has warned that the consequence is to be creating "a" breeding ground for certain xenophobic discourses ".

That is why he has called for more transparency and honesty when dealing with the transfer of immigrants because, in his opinion, there is no other alternative than to distribute them in solidarity among other autonomous communities to reduce the pressure on the Canary Islands and guarantee that serves them with dignity and sufficient resources.

From the

Gomera Socialist Group

, Senator

Fabián Chinea

has expressed the anger that in his opinion the Canaries feel for having been "abandoned" in this crisis and has demanded that the Executive apologize for a "disastrous" and "late" management.

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