The Government will analyze “case by case” whether migrant minors who have applied for asylum should leave the Canary Islands

The Supreme Court forced the Executive to take over some 1,200 Malian and Senegalese minors who have applied for political asylum in Spain and who are crammed into the reception centres in the Canary Islands.

The Minister of Territorial Policy, Angel Victor Torres, has emphasized that the Supreme "does not say" that "they must stay" in the Canary Islands "or go elsewhere, what he says is that they must be in the national system", "what is impossible is that they pass, as if they were a stock exchange, from one side to another"

Mini-summit between the Government and the Canarian Executive in Tenerife to respond to the Supreme Court’s ruling that required just over 1,000 unaccompanied migrant minors who have applied for asylum to move to the national reception system. Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Angel Victor Torres, has guaranteed in statements to the media this Thursday after the meeting held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife that the Government of Sp…

The Government of Spain and the Government of the Canary Islands have agreed this Thursday to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling and to organize the referral of a total of 1,008 migrant asylum-seeking minors from the Canary Islands to the State reception network. This is intended to "give a coordinated response" to the Supreme Court's ruling, which stated that unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors in the Canary Islands must move to the nationa…

Bolaños confirms that "the productive meeting with the Canary Islands" on Thursday will give effect to the sentence that obliges him to protect them in 10 days The government will assume the migrant minors who ask for asylum, but it cannot "from night to morning"

The Executive maintains that diverting them to state resources would harm "the best interests of the minor." The Government will take care of migrant minors seeking asylum, but it cannot do so "overnight."