Police and civil guards protest against the Congress against the Migration Pact with Junts: « Let's end this madness » | Spain
The main police and associations of the Civil Guard have demonstrated on Wednesday in front of the Congress of Deputies to show their rejection of the Delegation of Migration Competences to Catalonia agreed between the PSOE and Junts and that he still has to process Congress in the form of a law proposition. Shortly before, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has recognized in the control session of the lower house that the agreement signed by JUNTS and the PSOE is an “important delegation of competencies in migration matters”, but has insisted that it is not a “assignment of border control or irregular migratory flows”.
The agreement has solivianated police and civil guards who consider it « illegal » and an « unnecessary danger » for Spain and Europe because the competences at stake « can affect national security. » “Let's end this madness. Always within the law, within the Constitution and with the citizens, ”said Juan Fernández, spokesman for the National Police and Civil Guards and Secretary of the Unified Association of Civil Guards (AUGC). « We say it stop and clear, it is illegal, » said the general secretary of the Unified Police Unified (SUP), Mónica García, during the reading of a manifesto. “The impossibility of assigning or delegating these powers was already clearly established by the Constitutional Court in two sentences and since then our legal system has not undergone changes. The Interior Minister and the President of the Government also said it, although now it seems that they do not remember, ”he added.
The protest, convened at 11.00 on Wednesday in front of Congress, has gathered just over a hundred agents who have exhibited a cardboard tombstone with the registration « Department National Police in Catalonia » and banners with slogans such as « Sánchez sells us. Marlaska hides « or » not to the assignment of immigration. » Among the sound of the whistles, in the Plaza de las Cortes de Madrid, the representatives of the associations have been arranged in row, which he has come to greet at 11.30 the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. Behind a swarm of journalists, Feijóo has shown its support for agents' claims and has considered that the migratory pact « is bad for Catalonia and bad for the whole of national sovereignty. » « At the moment where Europe has a maximum concern that is security, security goes through not dismantling border control, not to dismantle immigration control and not dismantling the control of foreigners, » he said.
The proposal of law agreed by PSOE and Junts, who still has to undergo possible modifications and get the votes to be approved in the lower house, assumes that the state delegates in the Generalitat Border control for the return of immigrantsin addition to residence permits and control of the Foreigners Internment Center in Barcelona. The functions of the Mossos d'Esquadra will be extended, especially those of the National Police, and an increase of agents of the Catalan Autonomous Police of the current 19,000 to 26,800 in 2032 has been agreed.
The organizing platform – which encompasses the National Police Unions, UFP and Professional Police Union (SPP) and nine civil guard associations – convened this concentration Last Tuesdayhours after the agreement was known. It has joined this Wednesday representatives of the Jupol Police Union and the Jucil Association, majority in their respective bodies. “We share the same goal. We have all to be one. We concentrate especially to ask for resignation because we consider this a red line. Marlaska himself, on September 18, 2024, in the Congress of Deputies, said that there was not even the delegation of two exclusive powers such as foreigners and borders, ”explained Ibón Domínguez, Juol spokesman.
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska defends that the agreement does not “substantially” the activity that the Civil Guard, the National Police or the organs of the State Administration had been providing so far. « The National Police will be the one who enters who enters and who leaves the national territory and, for being very expressive, will be the one who puts the seal in the passports, » he said on Monday. The minister also affects that the expulsions of people in an irregular situation will continue to be agreed and executed by the Government delegates. The agreement does imply that the Mossos assume the returns, which do not require file and that They try to carry out immediately when someone enters irregularly in Spain.
One of the greatest concerns of the agents is the feeling of gradual dismantling that have the 6,000 National Police and Civil Guard agents who work in Catalonia and question what situation will remain if the initiative enters into force. A fortnight of police unions and associations of the Civil Guard already met Monday with Feijóo, to address how to stop this initiative and against which they have announced that they will undertake new pressure measures and judicial actions are raised.
