What is the price of a minor immigrant in Madrid, Andalusia, or Catalonia?

Much of the media has been abandoning the acronym MENA when referring to unaccompanied immigrant minors, as it seemed dehumanizing. But this doesn't mean they aren't still a political bargaining chip, which is another way of reducing them to a transactional problem and diverting focus from the human tragedy behind this phenomenon. The pact between Junts and the PSOE has brought out the claws of the PP-aligned press, which is outraged that Catalonia will receive fewer than 30 immigrants, while Madrid will have to accommodate 700. The asymmetry is explained, among other factors, by the effort already borne by those who know the truth: much better to tiptoe around the technical criteria and, instead, devote the space to exploiting yet another false grievance of the perfidious Catalans. Furthermore, since there is no unified registry for the autonomous communities, Ayuso has free rein to claim that she has taken in more than 10,000, or 30,000, if necessary: inflating the figure is free. The WorldFor example, it is said that Andalusia will accommodate more than eight other regions combined. Given that the mathematical aberration is as high as a bell tower because they express themselves in absolute rather than relative terms, they immediately admit that the actual census difference is only 1.5 million inhabitants, because the region presided over by Juanma Moreno is the most populated in Spain, far ahead of those at the bottom.

Let's remember that just a day ago, this newspaper scolded Vox for its anti-immigration stance. But, of course, if a balanced distribution policy now harms its editorial protégé Ayuso, then we must once again problematize these minors—who indeed pose a challenge—and unearth the rhetoric they rejected only 24 hours earlier. All very coherent.