The Governments of Spain and the Canary Islands will meet once a week as many times as necessary until compliance with the two orders of the Supreme Court that order the central Executive to take in the thousand unaccompanied migrant minors seeking asylum who are currently in the protection resources of the islands.
These meetings will be recorded and sent to the Supreme Court and their primary objective will be to "provide a detailed response to each minor seeking asylum", explained the spokesman for the Canary Islands executive, Alfonso Cabello, after the meeting of the Regional Government Council this Monday.
Cabello has proclaimed that the archipelago is "in luck" because "it seems that we are managing to make progress in the response" to these orders of the high court, the most recent of which was on June 4.
At that time, the central administration was given until next Friday to submit its "roadmap", which contains "three fundamental premises".
One of them, the spokesman for the Canary Islands executive stressed, is that the State will give immediate access to its international protection reception system to all minors who have submitted their asylum application in the Canary Islands: the 1,130 who have already done so and all those who do so from now on.
In addition, the State undertakes to demand only "the essential documents" from each minor to register them in the system, and the relevant resolution must be issued within a maximum period of three working days or five calendar days.
The Canary Islands-State inter-administrative committee will meet once a week "until it is understood that it fulfills its purpose", and will work with "a starting idea: each minor will be where their rights can best be fulfilled".
Thus, if a minor has roots in the islands, if he has "a structure around him and it is understood that his situation is better in the autonomous community, his departure will not be forced", Cabello explained.
In the case of minors who are referred, the State will assume their custody and other obligations in a shared manner with the autonomous community of destination, as well as the cost of their transfer.
The committee will be made up of four representatives from the Canary Islands and four from the State.
In parallel, the Government of the Canary Islands continues to work on other aspects to which the State continues to not respond, Alfonso Cabello stressed.
One is the financing of the cost of hosting more than 5,500 unaccompanied migrant minors.
The other, he continued, is that the reform of the immigration law should begin to be applied in terms of the redistribution of minors among the autonomous communities.
The Government of the Canary Islands asks that it be "before the summer" and emphasizes: "the response from the central administration is late for us."