The islands receive four unaccompanied migrant children from the Canary Islands despite government opposition.
The courts have rejected the government's attempts to postpone these arrivals.
PalmFour unaccompanied migrant children from the Canary Islands have arrived in the Balearic Islands, where they will be housed. This marks the beginning of the implementation of the distribution of minors decreed by the Spanish government in response to the overcrowding in the Canary archipelago. Although the government opposes the distribution, the courts (two courts in the Canary Islands) have ruled against the requests for suspension that were filed.
The first vice president and spokesperson for the Exhttps://static1.ara.cat/clip/cfa76c54-2da2-4c93-8739-605deab37e6e_16-9-aspect-ratio_775w_0.webpecutiu, regarding the transfer of the measures for the transfer of the measures of the Community's Legal Service until the appeals against the distribution are resolved. "By legal imperative," then, the Islands received these minors, explained Costa, who detailed that the rejection of the precautionary measures is due to the fact that this reception "does not have irreversible effects."
The Balearic legal profession also filed an appeal against the Royal Decree-Law amending the Immigration Law with the Constitutional Court and two others against the Royal Decree establishing the conditions for the distribution and ordinary capacity of the autonomous communities, in this case, before the Supreme Court. These appeals have been admitted and are awaiting judicial rulings. The Balearic government also announced that it would challenge the extraordinary regularization of immigrants proposed by the Spanish government. According to the government, the island councils are currently housing 688 unaccompanied foreign children and adolescents, which represents "an over-occupancy of around 1000% of the ordinary places available and 282 more than the reception capacity established by the Spanish government." "Catalan facilitates integration."
On the other hand, Costa considered that knowledge of Catalan "facilitates" the integration of immigrants in the Balearic Islands, although he did not propose it as a requirement for renewing residency permits. However, the Catalan president, Salvador Illa, has submitted an objection to the draft royal decree on extraordinary regularization, proposing that knowledge of this language be taken into account for the first residency renewal. "It is very difficult for a person to integrate into Spain and the Balearic Islands if they do not know Spanish," Costa said, insisting that Catalan is an "asset that should be considered," but should not be "an exclusionary requirement."