Thirteen unaccompanied migrant minors, from the Canary Islands and Ceuta, have already arrived in the Community of Madrid, in application of the royal decree that regulates the relocation of these minors in situations of migratory pressure, stated the Minister of Family, Youth and Social Affairs, Ana Dávila.
In a meeting with journalists, the councilor recalled that the Madrid Administration has appealed to the Constitutional Court against Royal Decree-Law 2/2025, of March 18, which modifies the Immigration Law with the criteria for the distribution of unaccompanied foreign minors, and has also challenged the two decrees that develop it before the Supreme Court.
According to Dávila, the Government has already initiated 124 transfer files for unaccompanied migrant minors to the Community of Madrid, of which around 30% have been rejected for not meeting "the minimum circumstances to make the transfer."
The councilor specified that the rejected cases were from "adults," from young people who already had roots, or "even cases that came from other autonomous communities."
Dávila has rejected the decree-law on "forced distribution," which has not taken into account the situation of the autonomous communities with "oversaturated and collapsed" centers and, in many cases, "not even the circumstances of the minor."
Madrid has asked the Government for the repatriation of 56 migrant minors.
The Executive headed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso has asked the Government to repatriate 56 unaccompanied migrant minors with "broad and varied" adaptation difficulties. Once the "impossibility" of integration has been technically verified, family reunification is the next step, the councillor explained.
Dávila added that they have forwarded these requests to the Government Delegation, the competent administration, and that, so far, the response has been "none."
