The waters of the Balearic Islands have been the scene of two new migratory tragedies known this Tuesday. On the one hand, the testimony of two survivors suggests that at least 17 people died after spending 15 days adrift trying to reach the Archipelago. On the other hand, Maritime Rescue and the Civil Guard have recovered the bodies of two more migrants after the shipwreck of a makeshift boat southeast of Cabrera, where they also rescued 19 survivors. In this second case, the search operation remains active because several people could still be missing.

In Formentera, calm seas provoke unease. A strange feeling in a sun and beach destination. The same anticyclone that encourages the arrival of tourists and recreational boats fuels the arrival of dinghies. And more and more are arriving. The figures confirm it: in the last weekend of May alone, 15 boats with 236 people on board arrived at the southern Pitiusa island, 17 of whom were minors. Data from the Government Delegation in the Balearic Islands confirms the trend: by May 31, 63 dinghies with 1,056 people had arrived in Formentera, 49% more than in 2025. Another 156 people arrived in Ibiza. There is no one left who disputes the facts: the route between Algeria and the Balearic Islands – and especially Formentera – is a massive and consolidated migratory route. Less than a year ago, the Spanish government was not so clear about it.

Migrant organizations from the Balearic Islands have expressed this Saturday their "deep indignation" at the decision of the Government of Marga Prohens to appeal to the Supreme Court against the extraordinary regularization process approved by the Spanish government and to request its provisional suspension. Among the signing organizations are the Platform for Immigration in the Balearic Islands, the Federation of Immigrant Associations (FADI), the Association of Ecuadorians of Ibiza and Formentera, and the Association of Senegalese of the Balearic Islands.

The migrant aid organization Alarm Phone has alerted to the disappearance of 23 people traveling on board a raft heading for the Balearic Islands.

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 plenary session of the Sa Pobla City Council has approved an initiative by Vox (with the support of the PP, the mayor of Independents, but with the abstention of three councilors from their group) to prohibit access with a burqa to municipal facilities.