The City Council Requires the Government to Take over Asylum Seekers in Municipal Centres Within One Month

On Friday, the Madrid City Council sent a request to the Ministries of the Interior and Inclusion, Social Security and Migration in which it urges that asylum seekers be removed from temporary reception centres of the City Council. To this end, they ask that they provide immediate access to the system of reception of state international protection within one month or the Consistory will file a lawsuit by judicial means. "There are people already…

The City of Madrid has moved a record of the situation in Barajas airport, where hundreds of homeless people have camped, and has sent a request to the Ministries of Interior and Inclusion, Social Security and Migration to provide immediate access to the International Protection Reception System to all persons who, either submitted the asylum application or expressed this intention, are in the centres of the Consistory. According to the City Cou…

The City Council will take the Government to court if it does not comply with its "exclusive competences" with asylum seekers within thirty days.

The Madrid City Council demands an urgent solution for asylum seekers from the central government.Read more The challenge of hosting asylum seekers in Madrid in News.es.

Madrid City Council follows the same strategy as Aena: it has sent requests to several ministries to assume their competences with asylum seekers at Barajas airport.Continue reading...