The Government of the Canary Islands, after a new meeting this Tuesday of the committee for the referral of unaccompanied migrant minors seeking asylum, has reproached the State for "still not having an established plan" and "a calendar to carry out the referrals of young people that the archipelago houses to the Peninsula."
The Minister of Social Welfare, Candelaria Delgado, said in statements sent to the media, that there is still no "clear roadmap, nor an established referral plan", as well as that the current pace of transfers to the Peninsula will take "more than a year" to comply with the ruling of the Supreme Court.
In this meeting, the State confirmed the transfer of nine girls on Thursday and another seven young people on Sunday, as well as 20 more minors per week in the next 15 days.
In this sense, the Canary Islands has raised the fact that, given this pace of referrals, it would take more than 10 months to complete the transfers of the approximately 1,000 minors who have requested international protection.
During this time, the general director of Child Protection of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sandra Rodríguez, has reproached, "uncertainty, distrust of the children will be generated, and that many of them will reach the age of majority in these months and will not be able to continue with their migratory project as minors", with what this would mean for their rights.
Even some of them have changed their minds and have stopped authorizing their transfer due to the delay that has occurred in the referrals, according to Rodríguez.
From the archipelago they have also urged the State to inform them about the agreed places and the places to which these migrant minors are referred.
"Today they have confirmed to us that they will not refer these minors to already established centers, but that they are creating new places, so those 1,200 places that they told us were already negotiated and were going to be established do not yet exist," lamented Candelaria Delgado.
In that sense, she recalled that the mandate of the Supreme Court to do everything possible to alleviate overcrowding in the centers of the Archipelago is being violated, so she will not be responsible before the high court for the State's breaches.
And she recalled that the Canary Islands and the State must present a periodic report on the progress in compliance with the order.
