The Government has opened a crack of self-criticism for its management of the Ceuta crisis following the massive entry of 80,000 foreign people in irregular situation. It has done so through its Minister for Digital Transformation, Óscar López, who admitted that “surely everything is improvable,” although he emphasized that “this is not the time to fuel controversies” and that “right now the most important thing is to respond” to the emergency in collaboration with the autonomous city’s Executive, with Morocco, and with the social entities working on the ground.
In addition, the Secretary General of the PSOE in the Community of Madrid has attacked Alberto Núñez Feijóo after he committed on Wednesday that, if he reaches La Moncloa, he will expel “all illegal immigrants and all means all, including minors.” “It’s shameful,” he said about the PP president, whom, in an interview on TVE, he accused of having a discourse on this matter “absolutely impossible to distinguish” from that of Vox.
According to López, what the opposition leader did at the press conference he gave from Ceuta was an electoral act with “the sole intention of scratching a handful of votes with misfortunes,” which “does not provide solutions, does not help, does not negotiate” and is dedicated to “throwing gasoline on the fire.” “Spain is an exemplary country that knows how to protect borders by complying with legality and human rights,” he stressed.
Along the same argumentative line, in another interview on La Sexta, the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, Elma Saiz, who has been in the autonomous city since Monday, posed a question regarding Feijóo’s announcement: “Is the PP putting on the table that in Spain, which is a state of law, we fail to meet our commitments in international legislation?”
The Minister of Finance, Arcadi España, also did not deviate from the official argument. Asked by the media during an official visit to Alicante, he pointed out that “citizens were left bewildered by the political rally” of the popular leader, whom he accused of trying to “seek votes from a difficult situation and providing very few solutions.” “If the only proposal of the main opposition party is to commit an illegality…”, he hinted.
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Eviction of El Trampolín
In addition, this Thursday the eviction of El Trampolín beach was carried out, where thousands of immigrants who were not returned after the avalanche of July 30 had set up precarious settlements. According to the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, their transfer to two of the spaces enabled with 1,800 places already active to accommodate them “in adequate and safe conditions” has been carried out “voluntarily”.
The “extraordinary device” for the transfer to Loma Margarita and El Embolsamiento has been developed in coordination with the State Security Forces and Corps and the Government of Ceuta. The action has also been carried out in collaboration with third sector entities, such as Engloba and Accem, to respond “to the needs arising from the exceptional situation the city is going through,” while work continues to enable the rest of the planned temporary facilities.
Likewise, the Minister of Migrations has responded to the Ceuta president, Juan José Vivas (PP), after he denounced this Thursday that at the pace the expulsion files are going, “between 20 and 25 a day,” the process will take a year to be completed. Regarding this, Saiz said that “one thing goes hand in hand with the other” and that, having relocated thousands of people in “temporary” reception resources, administrative procedures for returns can be “accelerated.”
