Escrivá announces that the 1,800 immigrants still in hotels will be moved this month
The Minister of Migration, José Luis Escrivá, has assured that by the end of this month the nearly 1,800 immigrants who remain housed in hotels in the Canary Islands, will be transferred to the camps deployed in the archipelago and the hotel establishments will be free empty again.
He stated this earlier today (Thursday) during his appearance in the Senate commission, in which he stressed that the six centres in Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura are all now open, and have more than 6,000 reception places in the Canary Islands, on top of the almost a thousand places that already existed before 2020.
Escrivá recalled that last year more than 23,000 irregular immigrants arrived in the Canary Islands, which caused an unexpected situation which led his department to make agreements with hotel complexes that were closed due to the pandemic, out of necessity to temporarily accommodate these people.
“We reached over 8,000 immigrants in hotels at the end of 2020, at the moment there are about 1,800 and by the end of the month they will all have been transferred to the new centres. The hotels will be empty and the immigrants will be in our reception centres", he said.
At the time that the Canary Islands Plan is being implemented, the minister recalled that work is also being done to make the reception system in the mainland "more fluid" in order to be able to refer the most vulnerable immigrants to those places throughout Spain.
Escrivá remarked that the migratory problem, mainly concentrated in the Canary Islands last year, "is the result fundamentally of the pandemic and of unforeseen elements that were difficult to anticipate."
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