The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, summoned the PP and the governments of the Canary Islands and Ceuta to a meeting next week to agree on the reform of the immigration law that will allow the distribution of migrant minors.
Torres held meetings this week in Brussels and sent a letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, to emphasize Europe’s support for the migration phenomenon, particularly in border territories.
The presidents of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, and of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, have already expressed their willingness to attend the new meeting. Torres, who chairs the Interministerial Commission on Immigration, demands this new meeting to “definitively” resolve the situation of thousands of minors who are in territories such as the Canary Islands and Ceuta.
Last September, the PP exploded discussions on the distribution of migrant minors between communities, claiming that Spain was not asking for EU help on immigration, a move described by the PSOE as “one more “implausible” excuse from the people. those who energize the negotiations.
The invitation to a new meeting comes after the government sent a letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in which it assured that “it has redoubled its intensity to take care of the most vulnerable, boys and girls who “have lost everything” and insists that “if taking care of migrants is a priority, when it comes to unaccompanied minors, the priority is absolute”.
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory met European representatives in Brussels, including the Commissioner for Internal Affairs, Ylva Johansson, to address the phenomenon of migrant children and explore new avenues of collaboration with the EU.
Torres also assures that, within the framework of the Operational Management Plan of Spain and the European Asylum Agency, work is underway on the possibility of relocation to other community countries of boys, girls and adolescents migrants seeking international protection, under a guaranteed best interest route. of the minor, one of the conditions that the PP had requested.
The letter to Von der Leyen also emphasizes collaboration with countries of origin, with bilateral meetings with Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Egypt and Ethiopia.
