One of the makeshift boats that arrived this week on the coasts of Mallorca carried the body of a person on board. With this body, there are now three that have been located in the last few days on the coasts of the Balearic Islands.

The migratory route between Algeria and the Spanish state has claimed the lives of 507 people between January and May 2026, many of whom are believed to have died in waters near the Balearic Islands. This is according to the latest report from the NGO Caminando Fronteras, which documents a total of 1,317 fatal victims on the different routes to the Spanish coasts during the first five months of the year.

The Government will request the Supreme Court to provisionally suspend the extraordinary regularization process for migrants until the contentious-administrative appeal it will file is resolved, as announced by the Executive's spokesperson, Antoni Costa, and disseminated by Europa Press. The Governing Council authorized the Community's Advocacy to initiate judicial proceedings this Friday. The Government argues that the measure was approved without the consensus of the autonomous communities, parliamentary debate, or assessment of the budgetary impact to foresee the social, economic, and administrative consequences.

A group of fishermen found the lifeless body of a woman this Wednesday at noon in waters near the island of Formentera, as confirmed by the Civil Guard.

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 Palma City Council has assured that it does not plan to reinforce the Social Services area due to the regularization process for migrants promoted by the central government and has defended that the service “is functioning normally”, despite the queues recorded these days at the citizen service offices (OAC).

The Palma City Council has assured that it does not foresee reinforcing the Social Services area following the migrant regularization process promoted by the central government and has defended that the service “functions normally”, despite the queues registered these days in the citizen service offices (OAC).

The Ombudsman will investigate the obstacles denounced by parties and officials by the Cort Government team after MÉS per Palma filed a formal complaint.

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.

The Balearic Government maintains its tug-of-war with the State over the distribution of migrant minors and already warns that it will return to the courts if the Spanish government approves a new decree to extend the current system. This was announced this Friday by the Executive's spokesperson, Antoni Costa, after the Governing Council, in a press conference marked by the firmness of his speech.

Although he arrived in Mallorca from Bolivia, Farouk Pino and his wife, Claudia Andrade, have held Spanish nationality for a decade. Pino has been at the helm of Bolivia Centro Social for 15 years, an organization through which he has built networks with associations and individuals of diverse backgrounds living in the Balearic Islands. Concerned about the rise of the far right, this activist makes his voice heard in Palma City Council meetings, where he denounces the policies of Vox and the PP.

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.

In recent weeks, one of the racist mantras of the European far right—often adopted even by some on the left, such as the British Labour Party—of defending "jobs for locals" has been reiterated by the highest authority in our region, President Prohens, in various contexts.

"7,300 immigrants arrived by boat in 2025, and the impact of this is that, in healthcare alone, 300 patients from Mallorca, Menorca, Formentera, and Ibiza are left without care every day because doctors refuse to treat these people who contribute nothing to the healthcare system." The Vox spokesperson in the Balearic Parliament, Manuela Cañadas, made these statements on January 29th. The issue here is that the far-right representative lied, because no one is left without care by the Balearic healthcare system: not residents, not tourists, not migrants. In this report, we debunk one of Vox's lies, although the party uses many others.

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.