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Spain's Ceuta seeks transfer of unaccompanied migrant minors to mainland Spain after border rush

Local leaders say the enclave cannot house the children after a rush of 72,000 migrants and cite a 2025 law requiring redistribution within 15 days.

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Spain's Ceuta, still reeling ​from a rush of 72,000 migrants arriving on its shores in one week, is seeking the transfer of hundreds of unaccompanied minors still in the ‌enclave to mainland Spain, local leaders said on Wednesday.

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The rule obliges children and young people to be rehoused when another territory exceeds its capacity by three. Melilla’s president, also of the PP, asks his colleagues for a “management of solidarity”

·Madrid, Spain
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The regional executive insists that it is the “responsibility” of the government

·Madrid, Spain
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The situation of unaccompanied minors in Ceuta is "untenable," says Juan Jesus Vivas, the leader of the Spanish enclave in Morocco. While the vast majority of migrants who arrived en masse in Ceuta at the end of last week have returned home, more than a thousand minors remain in the city, perhaps twice that number according to some NGOs. These minors are not theoretically deportable, and the authorities do not have enough space to accommodate th…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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It diverts pressure from the crisis to the PP to try to provoke a clash with Vivas and Vox.

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They criticize that the government "does not know how many minors there are" and that it puts the weight of the debate on whether or not the CCAA "allows menas to arrive."More information: PP Offensive for the Ceuta Crisis: asks to enable the Senate in August and urges Armengol to do the same with Congress.

·Spain
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Hundreds of minors remain in Ceuta

·Stockholm, Sweden
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