The Constitutional Court has admitted for processing the appeal filed by the Community of Madrid against the royal decree law approved by the Government - and endorsed by Congress - to relocate unaccompanied migrant minors from areas with strained resources, such as the Canary Islands or Ceuta, to other regions.
The plenary of the Court of Guarantees will study the appeal presented by the regional government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso for considering unconstitutional the royal decree of urgent measures for guaranteeing the best interests of children and adolescents in the face of extraordinary migratory contingency situations.
It is not the only community that has challenged this rule before the Constitutional Court; this Tuesday, for example, the Government of Aragon has done so, although it announced it last month.
In the case of the autonomous government of the Community of Madrid, the lawsuit considers the royal decree "unconstitutional" for violating several precepts of the Magna Carta and invading the "exclusive" powers of the regional government.
It also understands that the fundamental rights of minors would be violated, "displacing them by subjective quotas and without prioritizing the guarantee of their assistance", and that it would conflict with the articles of the Constitution that regulate the right of unaccompanied foreign minors to free movement and choice of residence within the national territory.
The royal decree, which was validated by Congress on April 1, modifies the immigration law and involves the transfer of some 4,400 children, most of them from the Canary Islands, during the first year and from the summer.
The Ministry of Youth and Childhood summoned the autonomous communities on Monday to debate and approve the terms in which the relocation will be carried out, although the power outage that affected the entire Peninsula forced the meeting to be suspended.
