Prohens once again criticizes the distribution of migrant minors: "Let them decide where they should be placed."

PalmPrime Minister Marga Prohens has accused the Spanish government of "authoritarianism" over the distribution of migrant minors from the Canary Islands and has demanded that it "decide where the 49 minors who are to arrive in the Balearic Islands should be placed," as approved by the Council of Ministers this Tuesday. Nearly 0 will be relocated.

"Let the Spanish government decide where we should host these minors and also assume the lack of dignity in the conditions and resources we have," criticized the president, who considers the distribution "inhumane." "It is the most xenophobic and least humanitarian that we have seen recently in the history of our country," she added.

Prohens also described the statements made by the Spanish government's delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, as "extremely serious." Rodríguez suggested that the Balearic Islands might also have to demand a distribution like the one the government is now rejecting. "I find them to be unprecedentedly irresponsible," Prohens remarked, also asking "what is being done" to prevent the Balearic Islands from becoming like the Canary Islands. "When this distribution has been made, when all the regions have collapsed resources, what will the [Spanish] government's immigration policy be?" he also asked.

The Prime Minister criticized the Sánchez government for "thinking it has absolute power" and criticized what she considers "authoritarianism toward the autonomous communities," because the distribution was made without consensus and without "taking into account" the autonomous communities. According to Prohens, the Ministry of Youth and Children contradicts itself by acknowledging that the Balearic Islands are hosting more than 200 minors above its capacity, while imposing the distribution of 49 minors from other communities. "If the Spanish government itself recognizes that we are saturated, how can the Ministry send us minors and ignore those who will arrive on our shores?" she rebuked.

Regarding the six million euros that the Spanish government representative indicated the Balearic Islands could receive, Prohens said he has "no news" about these amounts. "The only thing we have is the constant threats and blackmail from the government in the regions," he added.