The Government and the autonomous communities will address this Wednesday the transfer to the peninsula of around 380 unaccompanied migrant minors from Ceuta and, above all, from the Canary Islands, which currently oversees some 3,000 foreign minors while cayucos continue to arrive in the archipelago.
This transfer is in compliance with the agreement reached last year at the Sectoral Conference on Children, when the different administrations committed to transfer 400 minors in 2022 (340 from the Canary Islands and 60 from Ceuta) and 374 in 2023 (342 from the Canary Islands and 32 from Ceuta).
According to sources from the Ministry of Social Rights informed EFE on the eve of Wednesday's meeting, all regional governments have received the proposal and the vast majority have shown their willingness to welcome foreign minors, a decision that, they recall, is voluntary. The meeting will also finalize the distribution of another 20 million euros to finance the host communities' reception places.
The agreement reached last year fell far short of the expectations of the Canary Islands, and its president, Fernando Clavijo, criticized this Sunday that it has not yet been implemented. He denounced that "the Canary Islands are alone in the face of this migratory crisis" and asked for help to care for the 3,000 unaccompanied minors that the regional administration is currently overseeing.
According to the figures he offered yesterday, in El Hierro, the destination of the last cayucos, only 50 minors can be cared for and there are currently more than 200, although in recent days 340 have been transferred to other islands.
