Sumar has conveyed this Saturday to the PSOE that it is not willing to support initiatives aimed at accelerating the return to Morocco of the immigrants who accessed Ceuta last July if those measures include the expulsion of people who have applied for asylum before there is a firm resolution on each of their cases.
This was stated by the deputy spokesperson of Sumar in Congress, Enrique Santiago, when questioned about the content of the decree law that, according to El País, the Government would be preparing and that would incorporate that option.
In statements made during the annual party of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), Santiago reproached that his parliamentary group has not received information from the majority partner about the details of that possible decree law, but insisted that, if it ultimately sees the light, it must be validated in Congress and Sumar will not support any initiative that violates Human Rights.
INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE GENEVA CONVENTION
"We do not know very well what the content of that decree is, the PSOE has not conveyed it to us, but what has been published is clearly incompatible with the Geneva Convention of 1951 for the protection of refugees," Santiago emphasized.
In this line, he recalled that for weeks his party has been guaranteeing that it will give "all the support to strengthen the borders, no support if that strengthening of the borders is intended to be done by restricting or eliminating Human Rights."
In this way, he insisted that people who have applied for asylum have the right to remain in Spain "while their application for international protection is processed until the end," that is, until there is a firm ruling from the courts of Justice. "And in this we are going to be very categorical," he stressed.
THE RIGHT TO ASYLUM MUST BE RESPECTED
For her part, the Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rigo, indicated that she "knows that work is being done on the issue of deadlines" but emphasized that, in any case, "the current legislation that protects asylum seekers and, above all, migrant children must be complied with."
"We are proposing at all times a humanitarian solution and respect for International Law, Human Rights, and current legislation, and the right to asylum is a recognized right and we will work to ensure that it is respected," she guaranteed.