The Minister of Social Welfare of the Government of the Canary Islands, Candelaria Delgado, has limited the effect it has had on the islands to allow express referrals of unaccompanied migrant minors such as the relocations of asylum seekers to comply with the . Delgado explained that, to date, asylum seekers have been transferred, in addition to 171 others via the express route. That is, according to the counselor, a total of 581 migrant minors who are no longer in the archipelago have been transferred, while 370 new arrivals have been registered.
On Monday, I explained at a press conference that until the 26th. Of this total, 810 final transfer decisions have been issued, which have served to relocate 368 minors. “If we add to that figure the asylum-seeking boys and girls who are already in other communities,” Torres added, “we are talking about close to a thousand minors relocated in six months.”
Delgado made these statements this Tuesday after participating with the general director of Child and Family Protection, Sandra Rodríguez, in the interdepartmental commission that negotiates the departure of migrant minors with international protection that the Canary Islands protect.
At this point, the Government of the Canary Islands has recalled the , and that waiting for boys and girls to turn 18 is also non-compliance. In his statement to the media, Delgado has specified that since March, 260 minors have come of age waiting for their right to continue with their immigration project in centers of the State’s international protection network to be recognized, while 99 have renounced this right, because they refuse to be temporarily transferred to the devices enabled in Gran Canaria, which do not meet the conditions.
In addition, he detailed, there are still 85 minors housed in Canarias 50, 28 in Casa del Mar and 54 in Colegio León; while 96 of the minors who were on the initial Immigration list have received an unfavorable resolution to their asylum request.
Delgado pointed out that “it is easy to want to distort perception and play with numbers to make people believe that the State is fulfilling its obligation, but it turns out that they are not numbers, they are people, minors who see their rights violated, while the Canary Islands continue to assume a responsibility that exceeds their powers.” The general director, Sandra Rodríguez, has declared, for her part, that “what Ángel Víctor Torres cannot do is add all the minors in the same contingent and say that 1,000 have left, when the reality is that, from the Canary Islands, only 581 have left due to the different relocation routes that exist.”
