The government wants dental tests to determine the age of men who arrive in the Balearic Islands to be carried out on a “permanent” basis and it will propose them to the public prosecutor’s office, which must order these procedures and with whom it plans to meet again soon.
The regional president explained this Wednesday, Marga Prohensduring a press conference after his visit to the Port Technical Services (STP), during which he reiterated that with this measure (proposed by Vox in exchange for its support for the 2025 budgets), they intend to protect minors who are located in reception centers.
“We must be as rigorous and exact as possible. The IB-Salut already carries out bone x-rays and now the idea is to try to be much more precise to guarantee the dignity of the minors that we welcome and that we already have. Today is children’s day, and to protect it, we must be sure that all minors who are in juvenile centers are minors,” Prohens defended.
These tests, he stressed, are already available to The public prosecutor’s office, which is the one who must determine whether its use is necessary determine whether young undocumented migrants arriving by boat are minors or not. “It will be proposed to be carried out permanently and “We will put this resource in their hands whenever they request it,” said the president, who assured that they would soon meet with the public prosecutor.
In addition, it was criticized by the opposition, who claimed that it was a measure that dehumanized migrants and that, moreover, it was not provided for in the law. “It is done in other cases, whether it is invasive or illegal is a hoax,” he claimed.
This is, he admitted, one of the migration measures envisaged within the framework of the budgetary negotiations, even if he did not dare to mention any of them. “The last legislature we were the shame of Spain in the management of the centers minors, and we are doing all we can to ensure that they are now protected,” he declared.
On the other hand, he insisted on the lack of resources available to municipalities to welcome unaccompanied migrant minors “in conditions of dignity”. “We demand more resources from the government, because Municipalities mortgage their budgets for a situation that cannot be separated from irregular immigration, which is his responsibility,” the president underlined.
The “exponential growth” of irregular immigration, he said, “is a very, very worrying problem” for the majority of citizens. “We have seen images of migrants arriving on our shores that I do not want to see,” he warned, without specifying which ones he was talking about. “And if the The left wants to continue to defend insecurity and squatting, Let them do it, but the company is not involved in this,” he concluded.
From the opposition, the only member of Unidas Podemos in Parliament, Cristina Gomez, requested the appearance of the director of the Balearic Office for Children and Adolescents (OBIA), María del Mar Pulido, to rule on the dental examinations of migrants.
This was what Gómez said during the press conference following the meeting of spokespersons, during which he explained that his party had registered a document requesting the issuance of an OBIA report.
On the other hand, he explained that in the next plenary session his party will defend a motion relating to housing policy that raises 32 proposals, five of which are related to the Balearic Housing Law of 2018 and seven modifications to the program ‘ Secure rent’.
At the next plenary session, Gómez will ask the Minister of the Presidency and Public Administrations, Antonia Maria Estarellas, What will we do with the legalizations in progress now that the government has opened itself to modifying the administrative simplification decree?
