Unaccompanied minors and tourism of struggles

It is perplexing, to use a neutral word, to hear the Minister of Social Welfare and Families, Sandra Fernández, announce that the Balearic Islands will exhaust "all avenues"—legal, by which I mean—to avoid complying with the law and taking in the unaccompanied migrant minors they are entitled to, due to a "lack of capacity." It is disappointing that such a powerful and prosperous region, which, according to its own leaders, is a world leader among tourist destinations, lacks the capacity to take in, at most, around fifty children and adolescents without means of subsistence.

The Balearic Islands, on the other hand, apparently do have the capacity to accommodate twenty million tourists, or to anticipate a growth in population and built-up area of 30 or 40% (the latter, by virtue of the recently approved Land Acquisition Law). We do have this capacity, although we don't know with what water, what services, or what infrastructure we can cope with an overpopulation of that magnitude. Before anyone objects that this argument is demagogic, because tourism and illegal immigration cannot be compared, we will respond that the demagoguery is something else. Demagoguery consists of presenting as a problem of "capacity" what is nothing more than political clashes and ideological prejudices: it is about rejecting unaccompanied minors in order to oppose the perverse sanchismo (which, as we know, is a priority for the citizens of the Balearic Islands) and to please Vox's racist and fascist partners. Although, it's worth remembering, the PP has no trouble aligning itself with the far-right views of Vox, a party that was born, precisely, from within the PP itself.

While we're on the subject, among the millions of low-cost tourists (it's the translation of low cost(It's not essential to say the little things in English) that we do have the capacity to accommodate include a group of Irish youths, around eighteen years old, who beat up a seventy-one-year-old man and his twenty-year-old grandson in Santa Ponça. The attack was committed at the end of July, but it only became known a few days later, and occurred in the presence of numerous witnesses, who could see how the tourists were looking for trouble with the people around them, until they singled out the two aforementioned victims and beat them up for no reason, just because they were there, without any prior reason or provocation. The worst part fell to the seventy-one-year-old man, who had to undergo surgery because he had suffered facial fractures. The attackers were identified and arrested, and later released on bail of two thousand euros. If you go on vacation to Mallorca and want to add the extra of beating up two Aboriginal people as part of the all-inclusive package, the price, admittedly modest, is two thousand euros. They are not paid for what they give.

We anxiously await the big headlines from the local trash press, demanding prison for the attackers. We eagerly await the hoteliers' statement, condemning the damage that acts of this nature cause to the positive image of tourism in the Balearic Islands, a mature sector characterized by the pursuit of excellence. We eagerly await the supreme leader of the governing party in the Balearic Islands (i.e., Vox), Santiago Abascal, to call on good Spaniards to expel these criminals who come from abroad to beat our elderly. Perhaps this won't happen because it is through the tourism of brawls and hooligans, the kind of tourism that the neighboring countries don't want, that our national heroes provide us all with bread.