The Interministerial Immigration Commission of the Government of Spain, chaired by Ángel Víctor Torres, Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, met today for the development of Royal Decree Law 2/2025, of March 18, on urgent measures for the guarantee of the best interests of children and adolescents in situations of extraordinary migratory contingencies, after having received the figures of unaccompanied children and adolescents tutored in the autonomous reception systems.
All communities and autonomous cities have submitted the data requested by the Government of Spain except Aragon. The reason for this petition, whose deadline ended yesterday, Monday, March 31, is to respond to the eleventh additional provision of the RDL that regulates the ordinary capacity of the system of protection and guardianship of foreign minors not accompanied by each community or autonomous city. The objective is to dimension the protection system of the entire country to carry out a supportive and sustainable reception with homogeneous criteria of migrant children and adolescents who are in conditions that do not guarantee their rights, in the border territories.
From now on, the Ministry of Youth and Children, led by Minister Sira Rego, will collate the data and request the relevant clarifications from the autonomous communities, in order to unify the information and obtain a complete X-ray of the ordinary capacity that the territories currently have and of the number of reception of unaccompanied foreign migrant minors that each community has, in compliance with the provisions of the RDL.
The Interministerial Immigration Commission will be convened again next Tuesday to advance the application of the Royal Decree Law, whose validation will be voted on April 10 in the Congress of Deputies.
Minor asylum seekers
With regard to the reception of children and adolescents seeking asylum who are in charge of the protection services of the Canary Islands, the Government of Spain is in continuous contact with the Government of the Canary Islands, to which it has expressed its unequivocal will to comply with the precautionary measures agreed by the Supreme Court. It is planned that in the next few days a coordination meeting will be held between the regional leaders and the ministries involved, in order to advance an agreement between the two administrations.
Meeting Attendees
The meeting was attended by, in addition to Torres and Rego, the Second Vice-President and Minister of Labour and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, the Ministers and Ministers of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albars; Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska; Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Bustinduy; Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz; Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Courts, Félix Bolaños; and Economy, Trade and Carlos.
The Secretary of State for Territorial Policy, Arcadi España, the Secretary of State for Migration, Pilar Cancela, the Assistant Secretary for Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Cristina Navarro, and the General Director of the AGE in the Territory, Agustín Torres, who also serves as Secretary of the Interministerial Commission on Immigration, have also attended.