Vox left all the regional coalition governments with the PP in the summer of 2024 in protest because the Popular Party accepted the arrival of 400 minors from Ceuta and the Canary Islands. It is not strange that, two years later, the immigration folder has been key to resuming the alliance with the PP, for now, in the Extremadura executive. Four months after the elections, the PP has agreed with the far-right to limit the rights of immigrants, starting by committing to reject the arrival of irregulars by all means, "legal, juridical and political", whether they are minors or adults. The government of María Guardiola will not offer new places of reception and will try to empty the current ones "working actively to return unaccompanied minors to their countries of origin". A clear declaration of intent, despite the fact that Extremadura does not have the powers to expel people from its territory.

It took three years for the courts to recognize that Gambian Saynei Kanteh was indeed a minor, after the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office ruled that he was over eighteen and therefore no longer entitled to public protection. He was immediately removed from the guardianship of the Directorate General for Child Welfare (DGAIA, now the DGPPIA) and expelled from the center where he lived. "I knew he wasn't lying, that I was seventeen, and I trusted that sooner or later..." I would have the papers"," he states.

I read in the ARA that they have arrested "30 foreign parents to pass off their children as unaccompanied minors". They were "deliberately" stopped accompanying them so that they would enter the protection system under the tutelage of the Generalitat (Generalitat). The police called them "the Erasmus students," perhaps because they differed somewhat from those who arrived alone and in precarious conditions. Their families would abandon them near police stations, explain how to act, and hope that they would benefit from the system until their families returned. Others stayed here and were seen talking on the phone, unscrupulously, or sad, taciturn, and loving (I suppose the girls weren't handed over, only the boys). And I am moved by that story to tell, a long time ago, about one of those children. They all cried and called for their mothers. Most never returned. mother She was different until the end of her days, for them. Not for them, I know.

We read an extraordinary report by Albert Llimós in ARA, about unaccompanied minors (we have stopped calling him that). ore, which is not good) who certify an age on their "papers" that the Prosecutor's Office "doesn't believe." If there is a suspicion or certainty that they are over eighteen, but that they have "cheated" to have, for a longer period, institutional refuge, they are expelled. In this case, the expression is exact and not metaphorical: they are thrown out onto the street. Among some stories, Albert tells us that of a young man, Ba: "I thought I had talent, but no opportunity, and that's why I left," he says, confident that tomorrow he will be able to fulfill his dream of dedicating himself to athletics.

The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has contradicted the statements made by the president of the Balearic Islands, Marga Prohens, and wanted to make it clear that "in no way is the situation in the Balearic Islands comparable to that of the Canary Islands", as you can read in the Chronicle by Anna Mascaró in itNow the Balearic IslandsIn Clavijo's tone—a member of the Canary Islands Coalition—one senses a certain binge of Prohensian demagoguery, constantly comparing the arrival of small boats on the Balearic coast with the massive influxes in the Canary Islands, or even with those on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Prohens doesn't care: everything is ammunition to fire at the Spanish government and the hated Pedro Sánchez (hatred on demand: at the headquarters on Génova Street they indicate who to hate, and with what intensity, and the PP delegations in each community begin to radiate hatred according to instructions). While playing the victim and making inconsistent comparisons, the Balearic president continues to govern with the far-right Vox, a significant part of the problem. She has had—and surely still has—the option of agreeing on policies with the opposition groups, the Socialists, and Més per Mallorca. But until now, Vox has always been chosen as a partner, and recently, in the mid-term review, it has strengthened its position. This is due to the fact that decisions on agreements and alliances are not made in the Consulate of the Sea, but in Madrid.

Ten migrant minors seeking asylum who until now had been in the Canary Islands are now on the Peninsula. This Monday, the Spanish government began the transfer of these young people, thus complying with the Supreme Court order requiring it to take responsibility for a thousand minors who, upon arriving in the Canary Islands, requested international protection and have been accredited. Sources from the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration explain that, following this first transfer, two weekly transfers of small groups of minors are expected, which will be carried out in coordination with the Canary Islands government. In total, approximately 800 unaccompanied minors will be transferred, sources from the ministry told ARA. The remaining young people, up to a thousand, are staying in the Canary Islands because they have preferred to do so for reasons of establishing a stronghold.

A group of unknown individuals attacked the center for minors under the care of the Generalitat (Catalan government) located in Piera, Anoia, early this morning, using flammable liquids and stones. The incidents did not cause any injuries and come after a week of incidents and tension between a group of young people in care and residents of the municipality, which forced the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) to intervene on several occasions. Three inmates were attacked during these incidents. The Catalan police are guarding the center, which has been partially burned, to prevent further disturbances.

A group of unknown individuals attacked the juvenile center under the supervision of the Generalitat (Catalan government) in Piera, Anoia, Castell de Fang, early Friday morning with flammable liquids and stones. During these incidents, the Catalan police are guarding the center, which has been partially burned, to prevent further disturbances. The CaseThe attack took place around 5:00 a.m., while the minors in care and the caretakers who run the center were sleeping. Typically, around 20 people are present at night. The damage caused by the throwing of flammable substances and blunt objects is currently being assessed, which has damaged part of the facade and furniture inside the facility, such as a sofa, as well as a vehicle that was outside. The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) have opened an investigation into this case, which, in addition to identifying the perpetrators of the attack, aims to clarify whether this morning's action is directly related to the incidents this week in Piera involving young people in care and people from outside the center.

The Spanish government is giving itself more days for the autonomous communities to refine the data they have submitted on the available places for migrant minors without family members. The deadline for the regional governments to submit their data for redistribution of the 6,000 children currently in overcrowded centers in the Canary Islands, Ceuta, and Melilla passed at midnight this evening. They must be relocated throughout the Peninsula based, for example, on each territory's prior reception efforts. Only Aragon has refused to provide its data, while the Community of Madrid has provided the central government with the total number of minors cared for by the system during the past year, instead of providing the data that would provide a snapshot of the current situation. According to the agreement between Junts and the PSOE, Catalonia will have to take in between 20 and 30 of these minors. Because it is one of the regions that serves the most, specifically 2,242, according to the data that the Ministry of Social Rights has submitted to the ministry.

The Supreme Court's administrative-contentious chamber has accepted a precautionary measure requested by the Canary Islands government requiring the Spanish government to take charge of 1,000 unaccompanied immigrant minors currently being hosted by the autonomous community within a non-extendable period of 10 days.

In a few days, Thierno Kalidou Diallo will move from the apartment provided by a social organization to one shared with several friends, which he will have to pay for out of his own pocket. At 18, he works in a clothing store in Reus and is studying for a degree in social and healthcare, although his future plans include taking the university entrance exams to graduate in social education and obtaining a driver's license. Diallo says he has "worked hard" to get where he is now and feels "satisfied" to have managed to fully emancipate himself and direct his life in the direction he wanted when, at the age of sixteen, he decided on October 18, 2023, to emigrate. At the time, he was studying high school, far from his parents and two siblings, and found the money to pay for "the trip." After three months of traveling by bus, walking, and, finally, in one canoe, arrived in the Canary Islands. "I asked a friend of my parents for the money and said, 'If I don't die at sea, I'll pay you back,'" he says.

An emergency fast lane to guarantee rights and protection for minors arriving in Catalonia fleeing the war in Ukraine. This is the emergency device that the Department of Social Rights has set up for the reception of children arriving to stay with host families without their legal guardians. The conflict in Ukraine has caused, on the one hand, a new migratory wave in Europe and, on the other hand, has brought to the surface the willingness of many families to take them in. "We are a country of solidarity and this fills us with pride, but we also have to be aware that we have to do the job well because the most important thing is to guarantee children's rights," said minister Violant Cervera during an event in Terrassa, where a local charity has brought a hundred minors who already regularly took part in foster programmes with Catalan families.

Last week the repatriation of unaccompanied migrant children to Morocco, who had been in Ceuta for almost three months, began. The Minister of Home Affairs, Grande-Marlaska, says that they are minors who want to return to their country and that they are not expulsions but "assisted returns". The minister can use all the euphemisms he wants but he is finding it hard to pass off his actions as legal - or even fair.