The proposal on which the central government is based to negotiate with the PP the distribution of migrant minors by autonomous communities provides that the Canary Islands will welcome 1,000 boys and girls, compared to more than 5,000 currently. The distribution proposed by the Ministry of Youth and Children establishes an optimal number of places per autonomous community based on the number of inhabitants, taking the most recent census data.
“This document is intended to serve as the basis for an agreement that regulates the number of places available in the child and adolescent protection system. Although this system is the exclusive responsibility of the autonomous communities, a debate has opened regarding the adaptation of the system to the arrivals of unaccompanied migrant boys and girls in certain territories, thus generating a situation of pressure on their systems of primary reception. says the proposal to which this newspaper had access.
“The child protection system in the different autonomous communities has responded to a “formal opening or on request” nature of available places, which, until five or six years ago, responded to the situation of helpless children. Faced with the situation facing this system in the face of a dynamic and structural phenomenon such as the migratory phenomenon, with regard to unaccompanied minors, the character of the system must move from spaces of demand to structural spaces”, affirms -he. the proposal from the Ministry of Children.
The PP broke off negotiations this weekend, alluding to the fact that Spain has given up on asking for help from the EU, as requested by this party. However, the government denied having rejected this aid for the distribution of minors and assures that the popular parties broke off negotiations on the basis of “false information”. This same Monday, the spokesperson for the government of the Canary Islands, Alfonso Cabello, refused to censor the fact that the PP, partner of the Canary Islands Coalition, broke off negotiations to reach an agreement on the distribution of migrant minors between the autonomous communities. . As he emphasized, it is about continuing on the “path of dialogue” and reaching an agreement between the two main parties in the state.
According to the agreement proposed by the Ministry of Children, if we take into account the number of places in the entire State, we obtain a national average of one place for 2,546 inhabitants. Each autonomous community “has a different average which may be higher or lower than the national average, therefore the weighted criterion was established according to which each region should have one place for 2,250 inhabitants”, summarizes the document .
Moreover, the optimal number of places in the child protection system in the cwhole of Spain would be that of 23,597 structural places. If we compare the number of optimal places and the following overoccupancy rate of 50% of them until reaching 150% occupancy, we see that Only the Canary Islands and Ceuta are currently in a situation of overoccupancy more than 150% of their places in the protection system.
According to the ratio proposed by the government of one place per 2,250 inhabitants, the optimal number of places in the Canary Islands is 1,063, while Ceuta would have 82, compared to 470 currently.
Catalonia would be the community that would host the largest number (4,651), followed by Andalusia with 3,839; Madrid, 3137; Valencian Community, 2382; Basque Country, 1,491 or Galicia, with 1,203.
“This agreement also guarantees maximum thresholds of the reception system from which financial aid from the State would be necessary, including overoccupancy from 150% of the number set by each territory, a maximum figure which was already proposed in the reform of article 35 of the Organic Law on Immigration. But we are not talking exclusively about numbers,” the document specifies.
During the plenary session of the Canarian Parliament this Tuesday, socialist deputy Nira Fierro stressed that the PSOE “never got up and will never get up from the negotiating table” and asked if it is “true” that The vice-president of the Canary Islands, Manuel Domínguez (PP) supports a “European solution” which postpones the problem to 2026 with the application of a regulation ignoring the reform of article 35 of the immigration law and the obligation for autonomous communities to welcome migrant minors who arrive in the Canary Islands.
Fierro insisted on asking whether the vice-president “agrees or not” with the proposal made by the Spanish government to apply objective criteria by population for the distribution of minors and which would reduce the Canary Islands from 6,000 to 1,000 .
Furthermore, in an intervention reported by Europa Press, Fierro declared that there were only “three objective data” regarding the negotiations, that the PP “voted against” on July 23 the admission to the processing of the reform of the immigration law, this one. “he stood up” from the negotiating table and that the Spanish government’s distribution proposal “is fair to the population” and “improves” the situation in the Canary Islands.
