Migrant minors arriving from this Monday, September 1, in the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla must be transferred to other autonomous communities within fifteen days, in a reception that is mandatory by law for the destination territories.
The transfer of the newly arrived to these three territories is in addition to the referral of around 3,000 migrant minors already hosted in the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla who will be gradually relocated, and within a maximum period of one year, in other communities.
These are the two pillars of the mandatory solidarity mechanism launched in recent days, after the Government declared the extraordinary migratory contingency of the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, the three territories that meet the requirement of tripling the reception corresponding to the different communities, of 32.6 migrants per 100,000 inhabitants.
The Ministry of Youth and Children declared the migratory contingency in the Canary Islands and in Ceuta and Melilla last Friday, August 29, following the request of these three territories, which will be reported this Tuesday to an interministerial commission led by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, because the declaration affects more than one territory.
According to government sources, this interministerial meeting is also expected to address the request for migratory contingency that the Balearic Islands has announced it will request, a community that, with data updated to March 31, does not meet the requirement of multiplying its ordinary capacity by three, although arrivals to the archipelago have multiplied in recent weeks.
Balearic Islands wants to declare migratory contingency
The Balearic Government will seek to have the migratory contingency declared despite being against this mandatory distribution system, which it has appealed to the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court.
According to the ordinary capacity decree, the Balearic Islands must have 406 places in its ordinary capacity to comply with the corresponding ratio, although today it only has 72 structural places.
After the summer, the Balearic Islands hosts 680 minors, which in any case does not triple its ordinary capacity, but the forecast is that arrivals will continue to occur, so this archipelago does not want minors from the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla to be referred to it as well.
The relocation of minors will entail individual procedures promoted by the sub-delegations of the Government of the communities of origin and involving several steps, to which the minor, the Prosecutor's Office and the destination community can allege before the new location of each minor is resolved, whose guardianship will correspond to the destination territories.
Ten communities governed by the PP and Castilla-La Mancha, managed by the PSOE, oppose this relocation system and have appealed the reform of the immigration law to the Constitutional Court.
