The Government will approve this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers by decree the modification of the Immigration Law to articulate a permanent mechanism for the relocation of unaccompanied migrant minors who arrive in tense areas such as the Canary Islands to other autonomous communities.
According to sources from the negotiation confirmed to Efe, once Junts has shown its support for the initiative and, therefore, there is a sufficient majority for its validation in the Congress of Deputies, the Government will approve this Tuesday the reform of article 35 of the law.
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, who has led the negotiations on behalf of the central Executive with the Canary Islands Government and the political groups to get this measure forward, will appear at the press conference after the Council of Ministers this Tuesday to explain the details of the reform.
According to the sources, the decree will mean a "real and permanent" solution to the situation of border territories such as the Canary Islands, which currently has 5,800 young people under its tutelage, although the way in which these referrals will be carried out "will be adjusted from time to time to the real situation."
This is a "structural, definitive, regulated and mandatory measure for the reception of children in all communities," the sources specify, which will be adapted according to the migratory pressure of the moment and the reception capacity of the communities.
This is a measure that the Canary Islands have historically demanded due to the saturation of their welfare resources in times of large migratory flows to the archipelago, since, according to the current legislative framework, minors remain under the tutelage of the community to which they have arrived.
In recent years, some specific distributions have been made from areas such as the Canary Islands and Ceuta agreed within the Sectoral Conference on Children and Adolescents, but these have only reached a few hundred young people and, furthermore, have not been fully materialized.
PSOE, Sumar and Coalición Canaria took the initiative to reform article 35 of the Immigration Law to Congress in July of last year, but it failed in its first step of processing - its consideration - due to the lack of support from the PP, Vox and Junts.
Currently, the Popular Party, a partner of the Canary Islands government, has rejected at the national level supporting the reform of the law.
Reception of migrant minors in Catalonia
According to Agencia Efe, JxCat has reached an agreement with the Government that "limits the arrival of unaccompanied minors destined for Catalonia", which will receive between 20 and 30 of the 4,000 currently in the Canary Islands, while Madrid will host more than 700.
According to JxCat in a statement this Tuesday, the agreement, which will be approved in the Council of Ministers, provides that the distribution of minors among communities will be carried out "taking into account the population weight, but also the effort made by Catalonia over the last years."