At the border that a month ago leaked from all sides with the massive entry of more than 80,000 people, normality now reigns, beyond the presence of some of the immigrants who crossed it illegally, who wait to see if someone gives them food or money. The traffic at this point between Ceuta and Morocco –the El Tarajal crossing– is constant; thousands of people cross it every day, whether to go to work, visit relatives, or go sightseeing.

More than 80 people, including a baby and a girl, have died on a small boat that left Gambia 26 days ago bound for the Canary Islands with 128 occupants. The vessel was rescued this Thursday at dawn drifting south of the Canary Islands, when only 44 survivors remained on board. All are men of sub-Saharan origin. Five corpses were also located, which emergency services were unable to recover due to poor weather conditions and the urgency of evacuating three of the occupants to hospitals, according to Maritime Rescue.

As if it were a Netflix account, starting in January 2025, the La Meva Salut application will add profile options to be able to manage health appointments for more than one person from a single mobile phone. It is the same system as audiovisual platforms where families can add several profiles so that each member sees the offer that suits them best with a single login. Since these are very sensitive personal data, however, the managers of third-party accounts must have been previously authorized by these holders.

The child protection system has registered 1,478 unaccompanied migrant children in Ceuta, but it is estimated that around 1,200 more are still waiting to be identified. The head of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, indicated this Monday that the transfer of minors to the Peninsula is "essential" because the city "cannot be left alone," having exceeded its reception capacity. In a appearance before Congress to report on the Spanish government's management to resolve the migratory crisis, the minister was clear in defending the "higher interest" of minors as a "democratic conquest" that distinguishes "the rule of law from an autocracy" in the face of increasingly numerous positions of those who demand setting aside the law and expelling migrants, both adults and minors. a "democratic conquest" that distinguishes "the rule of law from an autocracy" in the face of increasingly numerous positions of those who demand setting aside the law and expelling migrants, both adults and minors.

In a straight line between Ceuta and Algeciras or La Línea de la Concepción there are about 30 kilometers and, by ferry, the journey does not take more than an hour and a bit. But the humanitarian crisis following the massive entry of July 30 and 31 has turned these journeys into a lucrative business for mafias, who take advantage of the desperation of migrants living precariously in Ceuta and charge them up to 9,000 euros per person to get on a raft or inflatable boat. Although the route has lost the importance it had in the 90s due to police pressure and Moroccan control, the latest data from the Ministry of the Interior indicate a 16% increase in irregular maritime entries to the Peninsula, while departures to the Canary Islands are falling by 60%, awaiting what will happen from the autumn when the sea state improves.

The intention of the public administrations to clear El Trampolín beach in Ceuta clashes with the fear of many immigrants of being forcibly deported to Morocco. Twice (Thursday morning and Friday morning) they have been evicted to be transferred to temporary reception centers, and on both occasions they have returned to occupy the sand. Added to the fear that they will be sent to the other side of the border is the evidence that the 1,800 places opened by the Spanish government in two locations are entirely insufficient to attend to all immigrants, the number of whom remains an unknown. Faced with this situation, many of those who were evicted from the beach camp on Thursday have returned this Friday as they have nowhere to take refuge.

The Ministry of Youth and Childhood is working to transfer up to 500 unaccompanied immigrant girls and adolescents from Ceuta to the Peninsula, according to ministry sources. The proposal is for the autonomous city's government to maintain guardianship of the minors and for custody to be transferred to social entities that manage reception centers. This is the solution they have found to speed up the usual process by which guardianship is transferred to the receiving community, which has the competencies.

The Spanish government has assured that the safe return of Moroccan minors who entered irregularly into Ceuta on July 30 is a priority. However, with the law in hand, the repatriation of young people has special protection compared to the ordinary procedures applied to adults. In fact, in recent years, returns with biological families are the absolute exception and only occur in specific cases. Furthermore, according to the prosecution, none have been processed to Morocco "due to the lack of cooperation" from the Alawite authorities. Not going any further, in 2024 only eight children were repatriated: four from Colombia, three from Romania, and one from France.

A Early-onset Alzheimer's, diagnosed at 58 years old, has brought Lluís and his family to an unsustainable situation. In the last two months, the cognitive deterioration of the illness has accelerated so much that caring for him at home is increasingly complicated, but, for the moment, admission to a geriatric residence is not a feasible or quick solution. When the family began the procedures to obtain a place, they hit an unexpected bureaucratic wall: current regulations limit geriatric residences for those over 65 years old, and Lluís is 64 years and nine months old. Therefore, until October he will not be able to opt for a place through the ordinary route, nor can he enter waiting lists. He is too young for a residence.

It is only a few months until Tania Galián turns 26, the age after which the public health system stops paying for hearing aids. These prostheses cost between 2,500 and 7,000 euros, depending on the degree of deafness and, like any electronic device, on the quality of the sound it captures and amplifies. "It's money we could use for a mortgage, a car, or to save up," complains Galián, who was born with profound deafness in both ears.

The Barnahus, the comprehensive care service for children who have suffered sexual assault, will be opened to other types of violence to prevent them from having to go to police stations, health centers, and courts to repeat what happened to them. The model, which already has 14 centers open throughout Catalonia, has represented a radical change in traditional practices because children are in a comfortable environment, safe spaces where police officers and legal professionals carry out all the tests that will be used in case of a trial, without the need for them to testify again. The announcement was made by Teresa Llorens, Secretary of Life Cycles and Citizenship of the Generalitat, who also announced that the figure of the child advocate will be created, a reference professional to care for children under guardianship who live in a center.

Registering in the municipality where one resides is a rocky road for many people who do not have a rental contract. Increasingly there are more town councils are creating obstacles for registration, a double obligation procedure for both local administration and all citizens, which in recent years has become a political weapon among mayors of all political colors. In a survey conducted by Ksnet on behalf of ECAS (the federation of Catalan social action entities) among about fifty social entities present in 60 municipalities (where 5.1 million inhabitants live), it is indicated that 40 of these populations have difficulties or incidents in this procedure. In half of them, rights are directly violated because they do not comply with the law when they do not recognize the figure of fictitious or no fixed address registration, foreseen, precisely, for residents who cannot or are not allowed to register their residence in an apartment or who live on the street. "Not wanting to register everyone who lives there is cheating yourself," summarized Pepa Fernández, a defender of the citizenry of Santa Coloma de Gramenet.

"This July 14th will be remembered as the day our care system was refounded". The Minister of Social Rights, Pablo Bustinduy, thus highlighted a day on which Congress approved by majority two transcendental issues for the care system: a decree-law is validated to oblige the State to contribute, for the first time, 50% of the funding for services provided for in the dependency law; and also that telecare becomes a universal service for all dependent people (currently subject to age criteria or co-payment). In fact, Bustinduy has compared the new legislation with the pension system established in the 20th century or with access to universal education and healthcare. The new scenario should benefit the 300,000 dependent people and the 130,000 on the waiting list in Catalonia, the "community with the longest waiting list, which has already approved a shock plan to speed up the procedures for collecting aid while they wait for a residential spot. Every day, thirty Catalans die without having received any help.

There is a before and after the early morning of July 7, 2016. The group rape of an 18-year-old girl by five men in Pamplona, during the Sanfermines, overturned the social perception of sexual violence and transformed the legal system and the way of explaining and understanding machista violence. The aggressors themselves, a group of friends who called themselves "La Manada" (The Pack), recorded the rape images and shared them in a WhatsApp group as if it were the trophy of that night, in a gesture of toxic male complicity.

Since arriving in Barcelona, Silvia has been living with administrative irregularity. At twelve years old, she followed in the footsteps of her mother, Angela, who the summer of the pandemic emigrated from Honduras trusting that she could soon regularize her situation. Seeing that it would not be easy, she paid for the girl's plane ticket and almost two years later she landed here, unaware that sharing a bed in a rented room awaited her. She doesn't remember how many apartments she's been through, but she does remember the day she realized she would be "different", when the school planned a trip abroad and she didn't have a passport.

The extraordinary regularization process for migrants has concluded with 1,174,978 applications to join the process throughout the State. The figure exceeds the half-million forecast made by Pedro Sánchez's executive when it announced the opening of the procedure, the seventh of its kind in democratic times and the first in 20 years. Of the total requests, more than 52% have already been admitted for processing, and therefore the beneficiaries now have a first temporary authorization to live and work in Spain. After admission, the government has three months to respond, but rejected applications have not been made public. Catalonia, with 257,000 —two out of every 10—, is the territory that has registered the most files, ahead of the Community of Madrid (202,000), the Valencian Country (167,000), and Andalusia (161,000).

The workers of the third social sector are called this Wednesday to a 24-hour strike –called by the majority unions CCOO and UGT– to demand that wage parity with staff hired by public administration be applied. The protest is the first act of mobilization, as 15-minute partial stoppages are planned at workplaces on Wednesdays, July 15 and 29.

The final stretch of the extraordinary regularization process for migrants promoted by the Spanish government is coming to an end with an open judicial front. Given the doubts raised by the Supreme Court about the measure's compatibility with European law, experts consulted by ARA agree that it is unlikely to have immediate effects on the applications submitted. While the legal world points to possible shortcomings in the processing, organizations and groups that have helped migrants with paperwork – often fighting against misinformation and lack of resources and suffering from administrative collapse– are now focusing all their efforts on ensuring that applicants can complete the procedures before the deadline expires this Tuesday.

The Department of Equality and Feminism will launch a new "community care" service for the LGTBI community that will complement the individual support already provided at the hundred points of the Integral Care Network (SAI) throughout Catalonia. Pending the approval of the Generalitat's budget and the corresponding tender, the new service will provide collective "on-demand" responses with mutual support groups guided by a social educator hired for this plan.

The day before the extraordinary regularization process for migrants ends, there are still those who submit their documentation. For Al Bilal, a Pakistani man in his forties, it has been "very" difficult to obtain all the papers, especially the criminal records from their country because they had only partially reached them to the point where they had considered completing the procedures without attaching the proof they had requested. Finally, the paper arrived last week, just in time "to avoid surprises," he says. On the contrary, it even includes the registration that is not required. Pending definitive data, the latest official figures from a couple of weeks ago indicated that 900,000 applications have been made, although journalistic reports increased the figures to 1.2 million cases, more than double the half a million predicted by the Spanish government.