The president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the socialist Salvador Illa, acknowledged this Friday that he finds the position of the Government of the Canary Islands regarding the distribution of the reception of unaccompanied migrant minors from the islands to the rest of Spain to be "reasonable".
In the conference he offered in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the challenges after the procés and the financing of his autonomous community, Illa stated that the conversations he has had with the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo (CC), regarding immigration have seemed "very reasonable" to him, while advocating for solidarity between territories.
He specified that in Catalonia there are more than 3,000 migrant minors and stressed that when the children turn 18, the Catalan institutions do not leave them helpless, but continue to care for them until they are 23 years old.
According to sources from the Generalitat, in Catalonia they have gone from having 798 places for young migrants in 2017 to 3,759 in 2024.
The president said that he has full confidence in the Government of Spain and in the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, to address the distribution of minors.
Likewise, he advocated for being prudent and discreet "so that things can be resolved", while criticizing the parties that "talk so much about Spain" and that, however, are not in what "really" contributes to improving the country.
