A total of 1,019 unaccompanied migrant minors, from Ceuta, the Canary Islands and Melilla, have already been relocated and relocated to other autonomous communities, according to data provided today, in Ceuta, by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, after a meeting with the delegates of the Government and the ministries involved, to monitor the situation of migrant children in the three communities that have declared the migratory contingency.

This is the second of the three meetings of this nature announced by the minister, after the one held in the Canary Islands on 23 January. The next event will be in the autonomous city of Melilla. In today’s meeting, the situation has been reviewed, both of the application of the amendment of Article 35, and, in the case of the Canary Islands, of compliance with the request of the Supreme Court to improve the conditions of these children and adolescents, who were crowded in the border territories.

According to the data supplied and signed by the officials, different degrees of compliance with the norm are manifested by the autonomous governments.

As for Ceuta, the Government of the Autonomous City has relocated 320 minors, out of 448 eligible for transfer, because the Government Delegation has completed its file; which means 71.4% compliance.

Melilla reaches 86.3% of compliance level, as it has transferred 57 boys and girls out of 66 with completed files.

In the case of the Canary Islands, 30% of children and adolescents eligible for transfer have been relocated, under the amendment of the Aliens Act. That is, of 671 cases completed by the Government Delegation in the islands, the Canary Islands Executive has relocated 202 minors.

On the other hand, the Government of Spain has complied with the Supreme Court’s orders, in relation to asylum seekers from the Canary Islands. 731 people are already in the National System of International Protection. Of these, 121 are adults and 610 are boys and girls (440 are in the Peninsula and 116 in the Canary Islands).

In the light of these figures, it is concluded that, with the dossiers already finalized by the three government delegations, 606 more minors could already be relocated to other communities than those already in place.

There are 469 missing from the Canary Islands, 128 from Ceuta and 9 from Melilla which, although the Government of Spain has completed its files, have not been transferred.

The minister has valued the work of the government delegations and the ministries concerned. Likewise, he also thanked the work and involvement of the autonomous governments of Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands. Today’s meeting was attended by, in addition to the Minister, the Secretary of State for Territorial Policy, Arcadi Spain; the Secretary of State for Migration, Pilar Cancela (via telemática); the Secretary of State for Youth and Childhood, Rubén Pérez (via telemática); the Government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana; the new Government delegate in Ceuta, Miguel Ángel Pérez; and the Government delegate in Melilla, Sabrina Moh.