The Government has approved on Tuesday in the Council of Ministers a royal decree that details the ordinary reception capacity of each of the autonomous communities, that is, the number of unaccompanied migrant minors that they can host. This is the last step of the Executive so that the thousands of minors overcrowded mainly in the units of the Canary Islands and also in Ceuta can be redistributed by the rest of the autonomous communities. A step that arrives after more than a year of wasteland negotiations between Moncloa and the PP.
According to official data, both Canary Islands and Ceuta have seen their reception capacity tripled. And that is why the text promoted today pursues that minors have the right to abandon both territories and be accepted in other autonomous communities that have less saturated resources available. The Decree first introduces a mandatory distribution mechanism in the face of reluctance of the PP regional governments.
Specifically, for a territory to be in this situation, it must multiply at least three its ordinary capacity. Thus, predictably, those who may request extraordinary migration contingency will be Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla.
Ratio of 32 minors per 100,000 inhabitants
The Government has encrypted the ordinary capacity of reception systems in a ratio of 32.6 places for migrant children and adolescents not accompanied by every 100,000 inhabitants for the whole of Spain. This is established by the formula collected in the Royal Decree of Ordinary Capacity of the System of Protection and Guardianship of Minors not accompanied by the Autonomous Communities, approved on Tuesday by the Council of Ministers.
The Government establishes that the ordinary reception capacity is 2,827 places in Andalusia, 2,650 in Catalunya and 2,325 in the Community of Madrid, the three regions that have the greatest ordinary reception capacity. In addition, according to the Royal Decree approved on Tuesday, Aragon has an ordinary reception capacity of 441 minors, Asturias of 331, 406 Balearic Islands, Canary Islands of 737, Cantabria of 194, Castilla y León de 783, Castilla-La Mancha of 692, Extremadura of 344, Galicia of 886, Murcia of 517, Navarra of 223, the Basque Country of 223 Rioja of 107, Ceuta de 27 and Melilla of 28.
The ordinary capacity, together with how many minors are already hosting each autonomy, is key to setting the calculation of transfers, which will be calculated by also taking into account parameters such as income, unemployment rate, previous effort, dispersion or situation of the border city or insularity.
In July, the Government made a maximum calculation of how many minors would have to host the communities. The territories that younger will have to host will be Andalusia (677 young people); Madrid, (647) and Community Valencian (571).
They were followed on the Castilla-La Mancha list, with 320 young people; Galicia, with 317; Aragon, with 251; La Rioja, with 205; Castilla y León, with 197; Extremadura, with 159; Cantabria, with 156; Asturias, with 144; Murcia region, with 133; Navarra, with 118 and the Balearic Islands with 49.
With the reception effort carried out to date, neither Euskadi nor Catalunya would have to host any young man, although Catalonia announced their intention to attend at least 31, as in previous reception campaigns.
Thursday, August 28
From the approval of this Royal Decree and after its publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE), the Government provides that next Thursday, August 28, the transfers of migrant minors not accompanied from the territories overocupated to the Peninsula may begin.
The distribution of these migrant minors was one of the issues that the Childhood Sector Conference convened by the Ministry of Youth and Childhood for July 17 was suspended but was suspended due to lack of “quorum” after the ‘plant’ of the autonomous communities of the Popular Party, except Ceuta, reports Europa Press.
Source: www.eldiario.es
