The Government is betting on a bill to distribute 2,500 migrant minors and the Canary Islands ask for a decree law

LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, 22 (EUROPA PRESS)

The Government of Spain has opted for a bill to distribute some 2,500 unaccompanied migrant minors of the 5,500 that the Canary Islands protect alone, while the CCAA has requested that it be done through a decree law as it is a more agile mechanism.

This was revealed during a press conference after a meeting in which the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, the minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the ministers of Youth and Children, Sira Rego, participated. and Inclusion, Elma Saiz, electronically.

"We have conveyed to the Government of the Canary Islands that it is a legislative proposal. Here we have a small divergence because they understand that it must be a decree law for immediate application by the Government of Spain for legal certainty," said Torres.

The minister said that the bill "is the best mechanism." "In any case, we are open to it being the most feasible because the proposal we are making for a bill is a bill that is urgent, read only once and that there are no vetoes in the Senate. It could be approved in three months ", he explained.

Furthermore, he placed special emphasis on the fact that any other proposal that shortens the deadlines will be studied, while he insisted that in the text proposed by the Government, "what we have done is a legislative modification that applies to the territories that currently have a immigration emergency contingency, which are three today, Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands".

"It could be any other territory," he continued, "that has this immigration contingency, therefore this legislative modification is applied to these three territories, modifying article 35, with a prior sectoral conference and with the criteria that have already been established at this time. been approved at that conference.

Furthermore, Torres pointed out that the distribution will be carried out in those Autonomous Communities in which 150% of the assigned capacity is exceeded, which in the Canary Islands means protecting around 3,000 minors.

In this regard, the president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, indicated that, although there is still a significant number of migrant minors under guardianship on the islands, it will "evidently be an important relief of pressure for saturated resources."

"With which the Ministry, having a saturation degree of 150%, is determining that the Canarian capacity is 2,000 and that 50% more is 1,000, which would leave it at 3,000, which is what we would have left. here approximately, the quota that the Canary Islands should have," explained the top regional leader.

WHAT HAPPENS ONCE THE CCAA IS SATURATED

Clavijo declared that the Canary Islands similarly demand that, once a CCAA is saturated and has 150% covered, new minors who arrive irregularly be directly assigned a community and that, after a period of fifteen days, can be derived.

"Our legal services," he continued, "understand that the State, regardless of whether they are in the Canary Islands, makes the assignment at this time."

However, the president pointed out that the Autonomous Community and the Ministry have been summoned to work in the coming days.

"Let's see if within 10 or 15 days another inter-ministerial sectoral meeting can be produced where we already have the text. And if the political agreement is a decree law, then I decree a law, and if the political agreement is a proposition of law, then be a bill of law.

In any case, he hoped that, in the best of cases, an agreement could be reached in September and that referrals of migrant minors to other Autonomous Communities could begin.