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Balearic Leader Seeks Frontex, Moves to Block Minors Transfers as Algeria Route Fuels New Surge

Madrid counters that rescues have been reinforced, with most arrivals continuing to the peninsula.

Archivo - Varios servicios de emergencia atienden a migrantes recién rescatados de un cayuco, en Puerto Naos, en Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canarias (España).
Los equipos de emergencias desplegados este miércoles por la tarde en Portocolom.
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Una embarcación de Salvamento Marítimo, durante el operativo de búsqueda de los tres migrantes desaparecidos, este jueves, en aguas del sur de Mallorca.

Overview

  • President Marga Prohens convened island councils and said the region will ask courts to suspend the central government’s new redistribution of unaccompanied minors, citing extreme overcapacity in child-protection centers.
  • In September Prohens will meet EU migration chief Magnus Brunner to request a Frontex operation on the Algeria–Balearic route, after roughly 1,250–1,500 arrivals in about three weeks and nearly 5,000 so far this year.
  • Government delegate Alfonso Rodríguez rejected claims of abandonment, pointing to increased Salvamento Marítimo resources and noting that about 90% of arrivals transit by ferry to Barcelona, with humanitarian support for vulnerable cases.
  • A patera that drifted for six days sank off Portopetro, leaving one dead, 20 injured and three missing as Guardia Civil and Salvamento Marítimo continue search operations.
  • The Balearic port authority has opened temporary spaces for people in transit as the Migration Ministry prepares modular facilities, unions press for more rescue resources, and nationwide transfers of unaccompanied minors from the Canaries continued this week.