The Government of Spain has appealed the resolution of the Supreme Court that obliged it to provide shelter in the national system to more than a thousand unaccompanied migrant minors who have applied for asylum in the Canary archipelago.
As reported by the newspaper El País, the State Attorney's Office has argued in its appeal that it is the regional administration of the Canary Islands that has the competence to take in migrant minors, regardless of whether they have applied for international protection or not.
In addition, the national Executive has assured that accepting the judicial ruling and referring the children and adolescents seeking asylum to its resources would be a "detriment" to "the best interests of the minor."
The High Court agreed on March 25 as a precautionary measure to give the Spanish Government a period of ten days to take in the more than a thousand minors sheltered in the Canary Islands reception centers who are asylum seekers or who have submitted a declaration of intent to request it.
Precisely, one day before this situation became known, the Government of Spain and the Canary Islands met to agree on how this transfer of minors required by the Supreme Court would take place.
