What is known about the distribution of immigrant minors in Spain after the Junts and the Government Agreement: this remains for communities

This Tuesday the Government announced after the Council of Ministers the approval of a royal decree law to reform article 35 of the Bigger’s Law after reaching a pact with JUNTS for the distribution of the more than 4,000 migrant minors who are currently in territories with overalls, such as Canary Islands, Ceuta or Melilla.

Thus, the government has given the autonomous communities in the deadline Until March 31 to inform your reception capacity of migrant minors, in order to begin their redistribution for the territory: “We are going to leave a reasonable period so that the autonomous communities send us the information on March 31, and have a certain margin to be able to work the proposal in the team, and automatically we would convene. But in the month of April there must be a sector conference to be able to advance the data, the proposal to the autonomous communities and put ourselves to work,” and childhood, Sira Rego.

This agreement has caused many doubts, since it is an important change in the distribution of these minors. Junts said Tuesday in a statement that Catalonia will receive between 20 and 30 of more than 4,000 children who are currently in these areas, while Madrid will host more than 700, generating a great controversy among the communities.

While Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla and Cataluña celebrate the newsthe rest of the communities have strongly criticized the agreement, describing it as “unfair” and “racist.” Thus, the Community of Madrid, Aragon, Cantabria, Galicia, Andalucía and Castilla y León They announced their willingness to go to court.

The cast by communities

The goal that is sought is that Before March 20, 2026 All minors who are now in territories with overection have been relocated. The criteria to declare the extraordinary migratory contingency situation must be approved at the Sectorial Conference of Children and Adolescents within a maximum period of three months, before June 20.

According to Royal Decree-Law 2/2025, of March 18, In case of not reaching the unanimous agreement of the Sectorial Conference of Children and Adolescence referred to in article 35 bis.1 of the Foreigners Law, the criteria for distribution by communities will be:

• 50% of girls and boys because of the population of autonomous communities or cities.
• 13% due to the gross income per capita of households in autonomous communities or cities.
• 15% by reason to the unemployment rate according to the active population survey of the last four -month period.
• 6% according to the average of children attended in the last six months; Ratio of foreign children and adolescents not accompanied by every 100,000 inhabitants.
• 10% due to the difference in existing places with respect to the desirable average of having one place for every 2,500 inhabitants.
• 2% because of its reality of border city.
• 2% due to insularity.
• 2% according to the dispersion of the population.