The Government of the Canary Islands has begun sending the first files of unaccompanied migrant minors who may be eligible for the new distribution system among autonomous communities, in application of the Royal Decree Law that modified article 35 of the Immigration Law and the other two subsequent decrees that have developed it. This past Tuesday, the Ministry already reported that between this Wednesday and next week 59 migrant minors will be transferred to the peninsula.
The Minister of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Childhood and Families, Candelaria Delgado, points out that this step represents "a decisive step" for the solidarity and binding distribution of minors provided for in the new legal framework to materialize "at last", and has stressed that the Canary Islands is fulfilling its obligation to prepare and send the documentation of the children under guardianship.
Delgado explained this Tuesday that the Government of the Canary Islands was able to locate in the official registry the declaration of the migratory contingency signed last Friday by the Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, which gives legal coverage to this process.
However, she warned that they are still waiting for the Government sub-delegations in the Canary Islands, which is where the documentation is delivered, to specify the necessary guidelines and lines of action to adequately channel the processing of the files.
According to Delgado, the Government of the Canary Islands seeks to overcome, jointly, the complexity involved in a massive exchange of sensitive information, which also requires great computing capacity and causes continuous failures in the sending systems.
Canary Islands denounces the lack of instructions
The Minister has pointed out that, although these instructions have not yet been received from the sub-delegations, the Ministry of Youth and Childhood has remained in permanent coordination with the General Directorate of Childhood and Families of the Government of the Canary Islands to define the content of the personalized documentation of each minor, the interview to be conducted with each child, as well as the application to be used.
“Canary Islands has started to comply, now we need the State to finish defining the guidelines so that the more than 2,000 children who must be transferred from our islands can be taken in by the rest of the autonomous communities before March”, says Delgado in a statement.
The Minister recalled that the decrees approved this summer establish that, once the migratory contingency has been declared, the State must activate the redistribution mechanism, with deadlines of 15 days for new arrivals and has until March 18 to relocate minors who exceed ordinary capacity.
