US EditionSpain lawmakers approve underage migrant plan to relieve Canary Islands
- Spanish lawmakers have approved a plan to relocate thousands of underage migrants from overcrowded youth centers, mainly in the Canary Islands, to other regions of Spain.
- More than 6,000 migrant minors currently live in cramped conditions on the Canary Islands.
- Youth Minister Sira Rego stated that the relocation could start this summer, considering factors like the region's population and income.
- Regional Minister Angel Victor Torres highlighted the humanitarian aspect, calling it an investment in the future of these children.
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Madrid. More than nine months after its presentation and after almost two years of the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Canary Islands, the Spanish Parliament finally approved the decree promoted by the socialist president Pedro Sánchez to reform the Aliens Act and begin the distribution of the more than 4,500 unguarded minors living in conditions of overcrowding.
In Spain, it is a new horizon and hope for unaccompanied young migrants. On Thursday, 10 April, the Spanish parliamentarians voted in favour of the amendment of the law on foreigners. In concrete terms, the autonomous communities will now be obliged to stand in solidarity in the reception of unaccompanied and isolated minors. This measure will mainly benefit the Canary Islands, the main gateway for migrants from West Africa.
More than a year of negotiations and disagreements later, Spain has approved a new model for the reception of unaccompanied foreign minors. The law on foreigners will now force, with the favorable votes of 179 deputies, all territories to show solidarity and that attention to the most vulnerable group among immigrants is not only an obligation of the territories of entry. The vote was followed by a long silence until a result was announced, in w…
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Spain lawmakers approve underage migrant plan to relieve Canary Islands
MADRID - Spanish lawmakers approved on Thursday a plan to relocate thousands of underage migrants staying in cramped youth centres, mainly on the Canary Islands, to the rest of the country as its outposts struggle to cope with higher migration flows. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The Congress of Deputies has validated this Thursday, and definitively, the royal decree law promoted by the Government to activate a mechanism for the relocation of unaccompanied migrant minors from the most saturated territories, which are currently the Canary Islands and Ceuta. An initiative that goes forward after a year and a half "long and tortuous", in the words of the promoter of the norm, the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor…
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