The concrete date to refer to 4,400 unaccompanied immigrant minors overcrowded between the Canary Islands and the Autonomous City of Ceuta continues in the air. Since the government announced last Tuesday that it had approved a decree to reform the law of … Foreigners that will propitiate the transfer of minors that the Canary Islands have been solo for 18 months to the rest of the Autonomous Communities, the great question that keeps the rest of the territories in suspense is: When? The response rides right now between optimism (of the Executive), the reality (of the autonomous communities) and the urgency (of the Canarian government).
The Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, who acts as president of the Immigration Interministerial Commission, ventured to affirm last week in the program ‘Las Mañanas’ of Spanish television that the cast will be launched after validating the decree in Congress, – in a maximum period of thirty days. An ambiguous statement that refined from another television set two days later, that of ‘Public Mirror’ of Antena 3, where He began the transfer of minors to the first half of Aprilbased on the recommendation of the State Advocacy, to begin the process with the greatest possible speed, but aware that months, “two or three”, until the Canarian government has the papers of minors in order and has determined which, by age, roots and situation, they will be transferred to other territories.
It is an arduous and long process that, despite having approved by an emergency route, requires time. Even so, the Canarian president, Fernando Clavijo, celebrates this agreement that ends his agony after months leading A sterile negotiation that finally pays off. With an optimistic tone, the island president said this week at the meeting of the ‘Canarian Pact for Migration’, along with all the spokesmen of the Canarian parliamentary groups, except Vox, which is confident that “from here the summer” the distribution of minors among all autonomous communities may be “to full performance.” Although he did not want to venture to give a term, Clavijo estimated that this part of the process, listening to the minors and providing them with documentation, will entail “two or three months,” reports Laura Bautista.
“We have taken a year”
“Two or three months” seems to be a verdict for the head of Territorial Policy and the current president of the Islands, but doing things wrong and could soon go against the spirit of this decree. It was explained by the Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, one of the singing voices of the negotiation. The migratory phenomenon in general, and the situation of the Canary Islands in particular, has evidenced that the immigrant childhood reception system in Spain It does not respond to the current demand And this decree, according to Rego, is focused on create a structural and quality system for minors, with standards that will be introduced in the application of the decree to guarantee the conditions that the centers have to have: the ratios; the training that workers have to have; The accompaniment, in addition to sanctioning mechanisms that the Ministry of Youth and Childhood will have, and the standardization of the form of inspections.
An ambition that also requires time. “It is a guarantee decree,” said Rego in the halls of the Congress of Deputies the day after the announcement. «Guarantee with the rights of childhood, but on the other hand also with the reality of the territories. We have a year, we have endowed for a year for the fulfillment of the transfers ». For his part, Torres slipped this same idea, before talking about “Two or three months”, in one of the multiple interviews he conducted last week. «We are going to validate the decree law and from there we have twelve months. The idea is to do it (the transfer) in the exercise of 2025 ».
Twelve months, not “two or three”, because the autonomous communities, specifically the Community of Madrid, Andalusia and the Valencian Community, according to the projections that ‘eldiario.es’ and ‘the world’ citing the ministry of Rego, to which the Government does not give a letter of nature, they must enable more than five hundred places respectively. In the case of the capital, eight hundred. The decree, explained the head of Youth, has that one year window to “logically adapt the reception systems and that is why this transition period occurs.”
What the text collects, which was announced once the Executive had tied the support of Junts for his future validation in Congress, in his second additional provision is that “the relocations of unaccompanied foreign minors They must be carried out within the maximum period of one year counting from that date ”, on March 20, 2026. Logical, since it is uncertain that these territories can prepare in record time for the reception that is projected. In the case of the Community of Madrid, the Minister of Family, Youth and Social Affairs, Ana Dávila, explained that the only way to assume the guardianship of eight hundred children would be expanding the center of Fuenlabrada, in reference to the first reception appeal of the Cantueña. In spite of all these statements that the ministers involved in public, sources of this Ministry denounce that they have no official communication by the government and not the figures that have “cooked and agreed” with Junts.
The executive seems to be playing a balance between considerably dimensioning the reception system in the communitys With a margin of one year, but without delaying more than the account the limit situation that Canary Islands. What remains to be seen is whether both variables are compatible or if precipitation will cause thousands of children to be overcrowded in some communities to be in others.
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