The President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, said this Tuesday that he is still "filled with perplexity" by the lack of response from the Spanish Government to the proposal presented to him more than 20 days ago to draw up a decree law for the distribution of unaccompanied minors.
Fernando Clavijo has insisted that those who believe that the problem of migration management will be resolved by "magic" are wrong, and added that as long as the situation of instability in the Sahel, wars, famine and drought continue, and there are no proposals for the development of the African continent, people will continue to throw themselves into the sea trying to flee from misery and death.
The President of the Canary Islands has emphasized that immigration is a structural phenomenon and has also criticized the Spanish Government for "not assuming the competence it has to take charge" of some 600 minors who are political refugees, most of them from Mali.
Fernando Clavijo recalled that during the past year some 47,000 adults arrived by sea to the islands, and so far in 2025 some 2,000 have done so, and reiterated the need to carry out an extraordinary distribution to alleviate the pressure on the islands, where these minors cannot be cared for as "they deserve and have the right to."
He commented that this Tuesday he spoke with the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, to try to meet on Wednesday or Thursday in Madrid because "we need" a response to the draft decree law.
Fernando Clavijo has pointed out that this response is needed to transfer the final text of the distribution to Junts and PNV and to seek agreements in the Congress of Deputies.
He has said that the attention would improve if 3,000 or 4,000 unaccompanied immigrant minors who are in the Canary Islands and between 200 and 400 from Ceuta were distributed throughout the Spanish territory.
