The Minister of Children and the Canarian President advance in the proposal of a timely cast of migrant minors
The Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, and the Canarian President, Fernando Clavijo, have met this Thursday in Madrid to address the criteria on which their proposal will be based to timely distribute 4,400 migrant minors who arrived alone to the Canary Islands and Ceuta. As announced upon leaving the meeting, Rego and Clavijo have agreed these criteria, which will be similar to those agreed in 2022 by all autonomous communities, such as the distribution of inhabitants by territory or the effort in the reception previously made by each autonomy.
The Minister and the Canary President have been optimistic with the advances achieved during their meeting, although the legal formula of the proposal and the viability of parliamentary support are still in doubt. “After several weeks, we have resolved one of the two unknowns: the one that has to do with determining the basic criteria that will be used to distribute 4,400 minors; 4,000 to the Canary Islands and 400 to Ceuta, ”said Clavijo.
The head of Childhood has celebrated that the agreed criteria are “quite coincident” with those established by the Autonomous Communities in 2022. “We have jointly considered that with criteria that remain valid,” said Ingo. “Now you have to work on the concrete application of these criteria. You have to see it from a technical perspective that makes a decent system. ”
The other unknown that remains to be resolved is the legal lace that will have the proposal of the punctual distribution of migrant minors, that is, if the Government will bet on a royal decree or a proposition of law. Currently, the State Advocacy is studying the viability of both possibilities and will soon have to issue a report with its conclusions. Once the legal formula has been decided, both governments will resume contacts with political parties to seek the necessary parliamentary support.
This specific agreement of minors seeks to relieve the current reception situation of the Canary Islands and Ceuta, as an alternative route while the government does not achieve a parliamentary majority to carry out the reform of article 35 of the Foreigner Law, considered by the central executive as a stable solution to humanitarian emergency situations before the arrival of migrant minors without an adult company.
