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Spain’s Mandatory Transfers of Unaccompanied Minors Take Effect as PP Regions Intensify Legal Resistance

Ministers warn they will deploy security forces if assigned regions refuse to receive the children.

Archivo - Agentes de los equipos de emergencia atienden a los migrantes en el muelle de Arrecife, a 6 de enero de 2025, en Lanzarote, Canarias (España). Una patera con 60 migrantes a bordo ha sido rescatada en la mañana de este lunes, 6 de enero, en aguas
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El ministro de Política Territorial y Memoria Democrática, Ángel Víctor Torres , en una foto de archivo.

Overview

  • The decree published in the BOE enters into force Thursday, activating a compulsory solidarity mechanism to rehouse roughly 3,000 minors from overloaded territories over the next year.
  • Canarias has signed its contingency request, and Ceuta and Melilla are preparing theirs as they far exceed capacity, with Ceuta caring for more than 510 minors against an assigned capacity of 27 and Melilla at 175 versus 28.
  • Balearic president Marga Prohens rejects her quota of 49 transfers and seeks a contingency declaration, though the central government’s delegate says the legal threshold is not met.
  • The Madrid regional government appeals the allocation decree to the Supreme Court, argues insufficient state resources for the 647 minors assigned, and alleges favorable treatment of Catalonia and the Basque Country.
  • The allocation formula sets 32.6 minors per 100,000 residents to define ordinary capacity, giving the largest quotas to Andalusia, Catalonia, and Madrid, with Baleares’ capacity set at 406.