It is clear from its text that the Spanish Government wants to be able to choose to which autonomous community unaccompanied migrant minors are transferred from the Canary Islands, Melilla or Ceuta in the event of overcrowding in these regions.
The plenary session of the Congress of Deputies will debate this Tuesday whether to consider reforming the immigration law to make it mandatory to distribute unaccompanied migrant minors to other communities when the receiving community exceeds 150% of its reception capacity. PP and Vox They have put forward their “no”, and ERC and Junts have also expressed their doubts.
The bill, signed by the PSOE, Sumar and Canary Coalition It was registered last Monday in Congress. Its text makes it clear that the Spanish Government wants to be able to choose, through a competent body of the General Administration of the State, to which autonomous community non-migrant minors from the Canary Islands will be transferred. , Melilla or Ceuta accompanied in case of overcrowding in these regions.
In the same way, the bill stipulates that within a year the current over-unemployment in the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla must be resolved through transfers. In concrete terms, it establishes that in Canary Islands The number of available places is 2000, so that would be 3000, the figure that would determine the existence of overcrowding a situation that is already occurring (there are currently 6,000 unaccompanied minor children).
Meanwhile in Ceuta would be 88 and 132 and, in Melilla, 166 and 249In principle, the initiative does not include financial support to implement this new distribution system.
As for the parliamentary groups, the far-right Vox party rejected the proposal from the start. After a contact this weekend between the minister Angel Victor Torres and the spokesperson for the Popular Group, Miguel TelladoThe PP has announced that it cannot facilitate the processing of a law that, according to “popular” sources, is “based on imposition and not on dialogue.”
The ‘populars’ proposed to Immigration emergency “for the entire national territory”not only for the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla; providing financing to the CCAA; involvement of the Spanish government in the management of minors; greater border control; negotiations with Europe to take action; investments and agreements with countries of origin.
Taking into account “plan B” If the proposal does not go ahead, Minister Torres announced on Thursday that the Spanish government is prepared to agree to it Decree Law the reform of the immigration law in the Council of Ministers, as the Canary Islands have demanded, if they receive the support of the PP, so that it can be applied immediately.
Last year, the Spanish government agreed with the communities to transfer 373 minors unaccompanied migrants of the Canary Islands and Ceuta, for which it was agreed to allocate 20 million euros. However, according to sources in the Spanish executive, the communities have only welcomed this 62 (16%).
Source: EITB
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