Musa arrived at the interview appointment nervous. He hadn't slept because he had spent the night writing down exactly what he wanted to explain about his story. He needed to have the puzzle pieces in order. He notified the minors' center that he was turning 18. No one heeded his warning, and when the Police certified his birth certificate, they threw him out on the street. The system rejected him, and he lost any opportunity to access the public resources network. His case is not unique. According to his account, and as third-sector workers have confirmed, a friend of his ended up begging, overcome by tears and fear, at the door of a charitable organization to let him sleep under a roof. They made a place for him that they didn't have.

Musa's room always smells good. The air freshener sticks she has placed on a shelf anchor her to the new space. The smell calms her. It tastes like home. Where a month ago there was an office with a computer and a video game console, today there is a new mattress and bed. They are hers. She will no longer have to wander with her clothes in a sports bag, not knowing where she will sleep the following week.

More than 30,000 undocumented immigrants in the Islands now have the possibility to emerge from invisibility. Since April 16, long queues at town halls have become the image of the extraordinary regularization driven by the Spanish government. They have been preparing documentation for months, but until the last minute they did not know that they would also need a vulnerability certificate, and that explains, in part, the system's saturation. "I don't understand why they want it, if all of us who are undocumented are vulnerable," reflects Abdou, a 32-year-old Senegalese man. Despite this, the priority is clear. "Even if we have to lose days of work: papers are papers," assures Khalid.

The extraordinary regularization process for migrant people promoted by the Spanish government is seen as a “historic” opportunity for tens of thousands of people in an irregular administrative situation in the Balearic Islands. However, jurists and legal professionals also warn of technical shortcomings and application difficulties that have generated uncertainty and occasional collapses in the first few days.

The EAPN Balearic Islands Network for Inclusion has detected political guidelines in island town halls to curb the reinforcement of personnel in social services that are attending to migrants in the processing of vulnerability certificates within the framework of the extraordinary regularization process.

The PP mayors of the Balearic Islands have called this Friday for the suspension of the extraordinary regularization of migrants due to the impact that, as they claim, it is having on the town councils. They consider that the process has generated situations of collapse in municipal services from day one.

A group of workers from the Department of Social Welfare of the Palma City Council has denounced the "serious overload" suffered by the Citizen Atención Office (OAC), after having received "political instructions not to reinforce the service" in the face of the extraordinary regularization.

"Healthcare [assistance] for people without legal residence represents 1%. We must attend to them for reasons of humanity and public health." This is how Prohens spoke in the Parliament plenary on Tuesday about what the attention to migrants means for the services of the Islands, who, despite residing in the Balearic Islands, have not yet regularized their administrative situation. The president had to respond to a question from Vox about the healthcare spending for the attention of people in an irregular situation, a pointless request, as Prohens herself made clear: "IB-Salut only has one budget and one accounting, and no items are distinguished based on where they come from." "A public representative should know this," she reproached the spokesperson for the far-right, Manuela Cañadas, who this Wednesday has accused the Government of opacity for not making non-existent data public. "Mrs. Prohens has decided that the money of all citizens is a state secret," criticized Cañadas.

The general coordinator of the Coalition for Mallorca, Joan Serra, and the island councilor Antoni Salas presented a motion this Wednesday that will be debated tomorrow in the plenary session of the Consell de Mallorca (Island Council). The proposal aims to address the structural demographic pressure affecting the Balearic Islands, a reality directly reflected in the overcrowding of schools and institutes. The central initiative of the motion is the creation of 35 temporary or reception classrooms distributed throughout the island, staffed by specialized personnel. Unlike the current model, the coalition proposes that these spaces be located outside of schools and have their own interdisciplinary program. This design seeks to manage the arrival of newly arrived students in an orderly manner and prevent the responsibility for their integration from falling exclusively on an already overwhelmed regular teaching staff. During the presentation, Joan Serra emphasized the need to adapt the system to the demographic reality of the archipelago. "We are the territory with the highest population growth in all of Europe, and the system cannot continue to function with stopgap measures," he said. Therefore, the party is presenting a proposal to ensure that "the arrival of newly arrived students is orderly and effective" through temporary reception classrooms. They say they want these classrooms to be "integrative tools, never segregative, that give students the necessary skills to successfully integrate into the mainstream system." For his part, Councilor Antoni Salas emphasized the importance of political consensus to pass this measure, which he considers "vital for maintaining educational quality and social cohesion" in Mallorca. Salas made a direct appeal to the other political parties: "We ask the other political groups in the Council of Mallorca to support this motion." The proposal anticipates that this new model will be implemented starting in the 2026-2027 academic year, with a special budget allocation and technical monitoring to evaluate its results within six months.

"Rape of dolls and women," "jihadist terrorism in the streets of Europe," "savage knife attacks resulting in amputations," collapse of public services, "cultural impoverishment in schools," "imposition of cultures"... This was the litany of accusations that the Parliaments had to listen to. The Vox spokesperson, Manuela CañadasShe won the award for the most racist speech, surrounded by silence and with the mocking smile of the Speaker of the House, Gabriel Le Senne, who did not intervene to stop the debate's drift.

Two babies, aged 2 and 18 months, are hospitalized at Can Misses Hospital in Ibiza after being rescued from a boat with symptoms of dehydration. According to sources at the Balearic Islands Health Service (Ib-Salut), the infants are in the Pediatric ward and are recovering well. The girls were traveling on a boat with 32 sub-Saharan migrants that was intercepted on Saturday in Ibiza. This is one of the three boats whose disappearance was reported last week, as confirmed by the NGO Caminando Fronteras. Initially, it was reported that there were 30 occupants, but it has now been confirmed that the two children were also on board. The boat had departed from the coast of Algeria on January 22 and was carrying three women and two children, among other passengers. Following their rescue by Maritime Rescue, the migrants were able to contact their families in their countries of origin, who had previously alerted the humanitarian organization to their disappearance. The Government Delegation in the Balearic Islands had reported on Friday that the Algerian Navy had intercepted two of the boats reported missing, although without providing details that would allow for their identification. That same day, the Civil Guard and Maritime Rescue rescued another vessel with 22 people on board in southern Mallorca, which was confirmed as one of the missing boats. With the location of the boat intercepted on Saturday in Ibiza, at least one of the vessels initially reported as located by the Algerian authorities does not correspond to those that had been reported missing, according to Caminando Fronteras. Meanwhile, the two children remain hospitalized and under medical observation.

Having passed the halfway point of the legislative term, those in power seem more focused on securing their victory than on addressing citizens' problems. To be charitable, we won't speculate on percentages. Marga Prohens's People's Party (PP) has concluded that overcrowding will never be their kryptonite, their Achilles' heel, and has abandoned any significant measures to combat the saturation. The protests came quickly, the noise hasn't subsided, and the tourist season will begin as usual. In the end, the Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council) also doesn't seem likely to limit car access and will continue monitoring illegal tourist rentals with ridiculously limited resources. Without any major consequences. Except for negative ones for those who end up living on the streets while speculators enrich themselves illegally.

The Sa Pobla Town Council has approved a Vox initiative (with the support of the PP and the Independents mayor, but with three councilors from their own group abstaining) to prohibit the wearing of a burka in municipal buildings. The proposal was opposed by the PSOE, MÁS, and El Pi parties and reinforces a regulation that has been in place since 2011, which Vox considers ambiguous, unclear, and ineffective. Vox councilor Roberto Vicente stated that it is shameful that councilors from the same party as the mayor "hide behind abstention," while their own mayor votes in favor of "a basic security measure." "The PSOE, MÁS, and El Pi have once again positioned themselves on the side of political correctness and cultural compromise, demonstrating that they prioritize their ideology over the safety and general interest of the residents of Sa Pobla," the councilor added. Vox reiterated its claim to authorship of the proposal, "even though the PP is now trying to appropriate it" by presenting it in other municipalities. The same motion will soon be presented in other municipalities such as Manacor and Felanitx. It should be noted that the PP will register the proposal to the Consell de Mallorca (Island Council of Mallorca) to request a ban on the burka and niqab in public spaces, which was approved this past Tuesday in the Balearic Parliament.

The Vox spokesperson in Manacor, Esteve Sureda (Manacor, 1977), recently took to the streets accompanied by the president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, on a tour that the party presented as a warning about the "worrying Islamization" of the municipality. With an almost urban safari-like feel, they toured the streets of the capital of the Levante region to "glimpse" a reality that the far right considers threatening.

When Romina received her degree in digital communication in Argentina, she went out into the street in costume with her friends and they threw "eggs and a mix of things" at her to celebrate what they call "the received"for the achievement. She imagines, repeatedly, that such a scene is repeated; a fantasy of reliving it the day that obtain legal residency in Spain. She is 32 years old. She arrived in Palma almost three years ago, fleeing instability and a lack of opportunities in her country. Since landing, nothing has been as she imagined. "You always come with illusions that mask reality. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but not that it would be this difficult. They don't recommend anyone come without papers. It's living 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with constant uncertainty and frustration," she admits.

The Prime Minister, Marga Prohens, has criticized the "irresponsible" extraordinary regularization of migrants which the Council of Ministers plans to approve this Tuesday, and he believes it will contribute to a "new pull factor" in the Balearic Islands. He expressed this sentiment in a message posted on his social media account after learning of the agreement between the PSOE and Podemos parties to approve this measure by royal decree.

The Spanish government's delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, stated that the central government cannot confirm the overall figures released by the organization Caminando Fronteras regarding mortality on the migration route from North Africa to the Balearic Islands, although he affirmed that he "respects" them. In any case, he did confirm the deaths of 63 people on this route during 2025.

The Balearic Islands Bar Association will file an administrative appeal with a court in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria against the resolution ordering the transfer and relocation of an unaccompanied foreign minor in the Balearic Islands. This was approved by the Governing Council this Friday, as reported by the government spokesperson, Antoni Costa, at the subsequent press conference.