At the beginning of the century, the Casal dels InfantsCasal, a well-established institution in the metropolitan area, recognized the need to have eyes and hands in Morocco to work in collaboration with local organizations, children intending to emigrate, and their families. Claire Trichot, from France, heads the Casal delegation in the North African country, based in Tangier.

Bakary and Lassana were minors, and the Catalan government (Generalitat) caused them to end up on the streets by claiming they were adults. Now, the courts have ruled in favor of the two Gambian boys. The age tests carried out by the Public Prosecutor's Office to determine their age, which led the former Directorate General for Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA) to expel them from children's centers, were invalid. Lassana and Bakary's are just two cases. But there are many more scattered throughout the region. In the city of Girona, there are already two other court rulings, and in La Garrotxa, for example, there have been about ten in recent months.

Two Mossos d'Esquadra cars responded to the call. The boy was crying, understanding nothing. Helpless. Lost. Overwhelmed. It was a December night last year on the outskirts of Cabanes, a small town in the Alt Empordà region. The rest of the center's inmates looked at him with a mixture of resignation, anger, and sorrow. So much sorrow. The officers took the boy and drove him to the Figueres station, bidding him farewell with a cold "good luck."

This has been a heated summer with multiple racist arsons. Protests and even attacks against centers for minors and migrants have multiplied throughout Spain. The most notable was the incident in Torre Pacheco, but there have also been attacks against centers for minors in Vallirana (with Molotov cocktails), in Marcilla (Navarra), riots in Piera (where incendiary devices were also thrown in May), in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), and in Sabadell, and persecutions in Hernani (Guipúzcoa). In San Sebastián, "hunts" for North African and African people have been organized through a Telegram group. These are just a few of the cases. We thus find ourselves following in the wake of Europe, which has been mired for some time in a crisis of vigilantism where the rise in violence against migrants, and especially North African minors, seems unstoppable.

Five months have passed since the Supreme Court gave the Spanish government 10 days to take charge of 1,000 unaccompanied immigrant minors who are being housed in the Canary Islands and who have applied for asylum or intended to do so. But the central government's response has not yet arrived. Following a meeting between the central and regional governments held this Tuesday, it was agreed that the transfer of these minors to the Peninsula will begin next week, according to sources at the meeting.

The Spanish government hopes to begin distributing asylum-seeking migrant children currently in the Canary Islands among the autonomous communities by the end of August. This is the intention of the Ministry of Youth and Children despite the boycott by the territories governed by the People's Party (PP), which did not attend the children's sector conference this Wednesday where the distribution was to be directed. Except for the autonomous city of Ceuta, no PP government attended this Wednesday's conference in Madrid. The regions that did participate in the meeting were Catalonia, the Basque Country, Navarre, Asturias, the Canary Islands, and Castilla-La Mancha.

As she enters adolescence, Amina S. dreams of being able to enter the academy and earn a place in the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) or the Local Police. Before that, however, she will have to obtain her papers and even acquire Spanish nationality. For now, at 17, after four years in Catalonia, she is waiting for her case to be resolved, once her father has regularized his status and can begin the process of obtaining family roots for his two children, while her mother must follow a separate procedure. "Not having papers makes you feel different, because you so often feel like there's an invasion of illegal immigrants!" says this young woman, who only thinks "about the future" and has never been able to return to her country of origin, not even when a grandmother died. "We wouldn't have been able to go back," she notes.

The Congress of Deputies on Thursday ratified the decree law that the Spanish government approved three weeks ago for the distribution of migrant minors who are overwhelming the services in the Canary Islands and Ceuta. The Spanish government agreed on certain criteria with Junts in exchange for its favorable vote, the only one still pending to approve the legislation, given that the PP is locked in a band. Carles Puigdemont's party voted in favor. The royal decree, which has been in force since its approval by the Council of Ministers, gave the regions a deadline to provide data on reception capacity. Some have provided "incomplete" information, according to the Ministry of Children and Youth, such as Madrid and Extremadura, while others have not provided any at all. All of them are governed by the conservative party.

This morning there has been covert strike on commuter trainsThe trains stopped at the stations for a long time, they arrived late... Having to hear you say that the transfer is going very well because workers' rights have been protected is a mockery of users, who also have a right, and no less important one, to mobility. President Isla: It's been twenty years since Zapatero announced the transfer of the Cercanías (Commuter Trains), and you're about to become another president on the list of those who watch the trains go by without being able to do anything. They're making fun of us, and this includes you too.