The government delegate, regarding the Balearic Islands' refusal to share migrant minors: "In a few months, they might ask for it."

PalmThe Spanish government delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, has once again warned about the possibility that the archipelago, "in a few months or a year," could request the transfer of unaccompanied foreign minors to other autonomous communities, despite currently refusing to accept 49 from the Canary Islands.

Rodríguez has warned the Prime Minister, Marga Prohens, of the risk she runs after having appealed to the Constitutional Court what he has defined as a "structural solution" to the problems arising from the reception of these minors. "That is why I was telling her that I warn against taking this structural solution to court, because perhaps in a few months or a year, we don't know, but perhaps she will have to request it for her own community," he added.

The government delegate has warned that the Balearic Islands already have double, according to the Spanish government's calculations, their ordinary capacity to receive migrant minors. This puts them one step away from being able to declare a migration emergency and transfer minors to other regions, given that the decree regulating this possibility establishes that it must at least triple.

Rodríguez, however, has not ventured to say whether he believes that the Spanish government, after months of outright rejection of this measure, could adopt it. In his opinion, what the new Minister of Families, Social Welfare and Dependency Care, Sandra Fernández, "hinted" is that they didn't need it "because they would ask other communities for help."

"But how will they ask? And what have the Canary Islands been doing for years? And which communities are helping them? We must face a reality from the best interest of the minor, which is their protection, and the idea that it is a national phenomenon that must be solved as a country, and all communities must collaborate."