Cantabria asks to repatriate 18 overseas minors not accompanied after agreeing with Vox | Spain | EUROtoday
The Government of Cantabria (PP) has requested the repatriation of 18 overseas minors not accompanied by the 26 that protects in its territory, because the SER has superior and has confirmed this newspaper. The initiative responds to the settlement to which the favored with Vox, a well timed associate in Parliament a number of months in the past. The Cantabrian Executive lacks competitors to execute returns and asks the Government Delegation to provoke these procedures. Appeals for this to “the best interests of the child is satisfied with the regrouping with his family in his country of origin” citing the Foreigner Law.
Eight of the minors come from Morocco, one other 4 of Gambia and the others are of Ivory Coast, Guinea-Conakri, Tunisia, Malí, Moldova and Algeria. The 18 information, which the nation has accessed, are an identical and easily varies the identify of the kid in query. They don’t deepen the the reason why the most effective pursuits of these affected could be to return to their international locations or info relating to their household scenario. The regional authorities doesn’t make clear why it has chosen these 18 minors and never others of the 26 protected as prone to that repatriation.
The doc, signed by the deputy director of the Childhood, Adolescence and Family Area, Jaime Serdio Agüeros, says of himself that “it serves to inform that there are no circumstances indicating that repatriation can be inconvenient for the minor.”
This Cantabrian try clashes towards different circumstances the place justice has prevented autonomies from returning minors to their territory. The final related case was in Ceuta in 2021, when some 1,200 youngsters agreed to the autonomous metropolis however lastly, among the many native authorities, the Government Delegation and the Interior and Foreign Ministries agreed to expel half 100 from them. The Supreme Court resolved three years after this return was unlawful for the “absolute non -observance” of the provisions of the Foreigner Law.
Sources of the Government Delegation affirm that the information “as marked by the administrative procedure” will probably be responded to and so they make clear that this expatriation process “violates all Spanish and international legislation regarding childhood protection, is contrary to international law, to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court”.
The Minister of Social Inclusion, Begoña Gómez del Río, has branded the controversy of “artificial and interested” and has argued that “the Government of Cantabria does not intend the expulsion of any unaccuted foreigner. Dignity and with the proper protection, ”he said, although it was a high position of the Cantabrian Executive who signed the files that endorsed the favorable consideration towards the extradition of those affected, beyond, as Gomez del Río added, the competition is state.
The movement of the Cantabrian government derives from a Vox motion approved on March 17 in Parliament with the support of the PP to sign agreements for the reintegration of unaccompanied foreign minors with their countries of origin, a measure that was also approved in the Region of Murcia. The votes of both parties allowed the motion to prosper, which received the refusal of the PSOE and the abstention of the Regionalist Party of Cantabria (PRC), previous group in the regional power with the Socialists. His parliamentarian Rosa Díaz recalled that from 2019 to 2024 he dropped the number of unaccompanied foreign minors protected by the community: from 77 to 29. He also stressed that before more than four million euros were allocated and that it is currently not reached at one million, while none of those 24 children had any judicial measure. After the controversy, the head of Social Services has argued that Cantabria has no competences and that she simply sent the cases to the delegation, although in the 18 documents it states that the deputy director of the Department of the Autonomous Executive approves the repatriation.
The socialist leader in Cantabria, Pedro Casares, has claimed an “pressing and rapid” rectification and has loaded against the measure of the Cantabrian government: “We are speaking about youngsters. It is notorious information and we’re chilling. We demand a direct rectification to the Popular Party and the Government of Cantabria. This file can’t proceed a minute extra.”
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