The Ministry of Youth and Childhood has summoned the autonomous communities this Monday to debate and approve the terms under which the relocation of unaccompanied migrant minors will be carried out from tense areas such as the Canary Islands and Ceuta to other regions.
The meeting will take place at the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory from 4:00 p.m. in order to move forward with an agreement on different points, aligned with the royal decree law approved by the Government, which modifies the immigration law and was validated by Congress on April 10.
The Ministry's proposal for this meeting includes key issues of the mechanism created by the Government, which will involve the transfer of some 4,400 children, most of them from the Canary Islands, during the first year and from the summer.
The royal decree law gives power to the Sectoral Conference to change various aspects of the referral model if it approves it unanimously, which is unlikely, since there are great differences between the regions on this issue.
In fact, last Friday, the Government of Aragon appealed to the Justice the very convocation of the Sectoral for considering it derived from the royal decree law and the Community of Madrid asked the minister by letter to cancel the meeting, calling it illegal.
The same text specifies that, in the event that there is no such consensus, the Government will continue with the redistribution mechanism in the terms established by the decree.
This means establishing how many minors each community should take in as a matter of course according to its population and the right to request the referral of minors to another place when the occupation of its resources exceeds this capacity three times.
The proposal that is intended to be approved today also includes the distribution criteria among the communities: population (50%), per capita income (13%), unemployment rate (15%), reception effort (6%), structural dimensioning of the system (10%), dispersion of the population (2%) and the singularities of border city (2%) and insularity (2%).
And it determines the possibility of extending the ordinary capacity of the protection systems: it can only be extended for one year -by royal decree and after a report from the Sectoral- and then the unanimous agreement of the communities or, failing that, an absolute majority in Congress will be required.
The proposal specifies that, from the first year of extension, without unanimous agreement of the Sectoral on the ordinary capacity of the protection systems, the resolutions of the State derived from this law on the relocation of minors will not be mandatory for the communities.
