The Supreme Court summons the government at a sight to report on the more than a thousand minors asylum applicants in the Canary Islands | Spain
The central government will have to explain in the Supreme Court if it has fulfilled The order given by the judges at the end of March to take over more than a thousand asylum seekers who are currently in charge of the Canary Child Protection Services. The Contentious-Administrative Chamber has convened a public view for May 29, understanding that the response received by the State « seems to highlight that it has not been fulfilled » to the requirement made by the Court, so the judges have chosen to summon the two parties (the central government and the Canary) at the headquarters of the Supreme Court so that the State Advocacy reports on how the order that the order that the judges is being fulfilled.
The decision now adopted by the Court was already announced in the resolution that it notified on March 26, in which it gave the Government 10 days to take over more than 1,000 unaccompanied minors found in the Canary Islands reception services. The Chamber agreed that the Government should inform him of the measures that were taken, and after the period of 10 days, the Supreme Court would decide whether to celebrate a view to examine compliance with the precautionary measure.
That supreme car responded to a resource presented by the Canary Islands government last January, after the central executive ignored the requirement it made to guarantee the access of these minors to the international protection reception system. The magistrates examined the powers of both administrations and concluded that the management corresponds to the Ministry of State for Migration, according to Royal Decree 220/2022. In that letter, the Court reproached the State Administration that has not made available to these minors the State System for the reception of asylum applicants “although it is a system to which they have full right and whose effective implementation is revealed essential to correct the current overcrowding situation in which these minors – according to notorious – are openly incompatible with the superior interest of the minor that is forced to protect”.
The government challenged the order of the Supreme, but withdrew the appeal After a meeting held 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. The State Advocacy presented in El Tribual a letter explaining how it planned to solve the situation of these minors, but their response has not convinced the court.
According to the Supreme Court in the resolution notified now, during the sight of May 29 the State Administration must provide a “detailed relationship” of the minors who have already been individually evaluated in the National System of reception of international protection and of those who are pending evaluation. In the case of minors already evaluated, this relationship must include the reception assigned to each one, as well as the detailed relationship of those who are pending allocation. If the current system did not have sufficient resources for the exercise of said state competence, the Government must detail “the concrete initiatives that have been adopted to obtain them by any of the regulation formulas (articles 7 and 8 of the Royal Decree 220/2022) and deadline for obtaining said resources”.
The Supreme will also ask the State Advocacy for the administrative units responsible for the realization of these actions; The agreements or protocols arranged with the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the detailed calendar established for its execution.
