The Supreme Court is holding a hearing this Thursday in which the Government must detail the measures taken to care for the approximately 1,200 unaccompanied migrant minors seeking asylum who are under the guardianship of the Canary Islands in its state reception network, as ordered on March 25.
More than two months later, the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court will hear the Executive's report on compliance with the precautionary measure, imposed at the request of the Government of the Canary Islands, which gave it a non-extendable period of 10 days to guarantee the access and permanence of young people in the national system.
The hearing was convened on the understanding that the response received from the State "seems to highlight that the requirement has not been complied with in its own terms".
The State is asked to report with "a detailed list" of the minors who have already been individually assessed within the scope of the national international protection reception system and those who are pending assessment.
In the case of young people whose situation has already been analysed, it must indicate which reception resource of the system has been assigned to each of them and how many are pending assignment.
The Supreme Court demands that the Government, in the event that the system does not have sufficient resources to exercise this "state competence", must detail what "specific initiatives" it has adopted to obtain them and within what timeframe it expects to achieve them.
The Government has assured that it will abide by this order, but on several occasions it has warned that its international protection system is designed to cater for adults or families.
For this reason, this week the central government has sent a draft protocol to the Canary Islands - which will attend the hearing as the plaintiff - a "draft open to contributions".
In fact, the Supreme Court also asks it to give an account of what "specific" agreements or protocols it has agreed with the Canary Islands Executive to execute this order and what is the established timetable for this.
On March 18, the Government approved a royal decree-law to articulate a mechanism for relocating young people from areas with strained resources, such as the Canary Islands and Ceuta, to other regions.
The regulation has aroused great rejection from the communities presided over by the PP but is underway and, in the opinion of both governments, the central and the Canary Islands, is the solution to end overcrowding and poor conditions in which young migrants in the Canary Islands find themselves, whether they are asylum seekers or not.
