The Government withdraws the appeal against the order of the Supreme that forces it to take charge of 1,000 minors in the Canary Islands | Spain

The Government has withdrawn the appeal that the State Advocacy had presented against the precautionary measures imposed by the Supreme Court that forced the State to take care of more than 1,000 unaccompanied migrants asylum seekers who are currently under the protection services of the Canary Islands, As this newspaper said yesterday. The decision to withdraw the appeal occurred After the meeting held this Thursday between the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the Canarian president, Fernando Clavijo, in which they agreed to study “case by case” the situation of minors.

« Yesterday there was a meeting of the Government of Spain with the Government of the Canary Islands, » said the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, of the Government of Spain, Félix Bolaños. « A meeting that has been very productive and as a consequence of that meeting, of the advances that have occurred at that meeting, as a sign of loyalty and good faith in the negotiation, we have already withdrawn that resource that had been filed by the State’s law before the order of precautionary measures. »

« As a sign of good negotiating faith, » Bolaños continued, « I think we can reach an agreement to the two parties. » The withdrawal occurs thus « to be able to work in the agreement and not so much in the judicial procedure, this is an example of an adequate measure of conflict resolution, precisely that the parties can speak. »

The precautionary measure agreed on March 25 by the Supreme Court to host the more than 1,000 unaccompanied minors found in the Canary Islands reception services and who have officially requested or officially manifested their willingness to request it. The Government has sustained at all times its intention to respect the ruling. Something that Torres himself stressed on Thursday in statements to the media after the meeting with Clavijo, when he guaranteed that « it will logically respect that ruling, it will be put into practice. »

The State Advocacy, however, filed the appeal before the meeting, explain sources close to the central executive, to prevent the deadline from being exhausted. In the appeal, to which the country has had access, the State Advocacy defends that the Autonomous Administration Canaria is competent in the subject of migrant minors, whether or not they are applicants for international protection. According to the Government, abide by the ruling and refer to those minors to the resources of the State would result « to the detriment of the best interests of the child. »

The Supreme Judges admitted that, on this matter, there is a crossing of powers of the state and regional administrations. In his words, in his capacity as minors « in obvious situation of helplessness » is the autonomous community that must take charge, but « when the circumstance of having submitted an asylum application is added to its minor status, » the legislation on this matter, which incumbent the State, comes into action. The magistrates assume that the reception of these minors requires the collaboration of both administrations, but consider that the current situation is “unsustainable”, so they chose to agree as a precautionary measure the immediate access to the state -owned reception system for asylum applicants.