The far-right Vox recognizes that the law obliges it to take in minors from Ceuta while denying them being children: "Do not call those who are not children."

The far-right Vox party recognized this Monday that the autonomous communities where it governs with the PP are obliged to host migrant minors from Ceuta. Its national spokesperson, José Antonio Fúster, admitted that the law prevents these executives from rejecting transfers, although he maintained the party's discourse against reception intact and questioned whether the affected young people are minors.

"What children? The children are the Spanish ones," Fúster responded during a press conference at Vox headquarters. He also asked that those who, according to him, are "17, 18, or even 30 years old with beards" not be called children. The spokesperson thus mixed ages that the law clearly distinguishes: a 17-year-old person is a minor, regardless of their appearance or nationality.

The admission comes after governments shared by PP and Vox have received 33 minors who were already in Ceuta before the massive entry on July 30 and 31. These transfers have occurred despite regional agreements in which both parties expressed their rejection of reception. The future of those who arrived during the crisis at the end of July remains a subject of dispute.

An obligation that Vox's far-right can no longer evade

Fúster denied that there is a contradiction between the actions of his regional governments and the demands for return raised by Vox. However, he recognized the scope of the reform approved in March 2025: when an extraordinary situation is declared due to the saturation of a territory's protection system, the relocation of minors to other communities no longer depends on the will of each regional government.

Article 35 of the Immigration Law establishes the procedure for assigning each minor a destination community. The resolution must listen to the affected young person and the administration that will receive them, with the knowledge of the Public Prosecutor's Office. The transfer to the Peninsula also does not by itself decide whether they can remain in Spain or return with their family: their situation must be studied through the corresponding file.

Vox broke its regional governments with the PP in 2024 due to disagreements over the reception of migrant minors. Now it again shares executives with the popular party in Andalusia, Aragon, Castilla y León, and Extremadura. Despite its public opposition to transfers, the party assumes that these governments must apply the norm and, according to party sources, does not contemplate repeating that rupture.

The 33 recently welcomed minors are distributed among Andalusia, which has received 22; Extremadura and Castilla y León, with four each; and Aragon, with three. Precision matters: all of them were in Ceuta before the July crisis, so these figures do not yet reflect the reception of minors who arrived in the massive entry.

Fúster questions their age without providing figures

The spokesperson for Vox has demanded proof to determine how many of the young people are actually minors and has suggested that the percentage could be very small. He has not offered data to support this claim. The law already provides for the intervention of the Public Prosecutor's Office and an age determination procedure when the minority of an undocumented person cannot be established with certainty; physical appearance does not replace this process.

Fúster has also demanded that it be certified whether efforts have been exhausted to reunite the minors with their families in Morocco. He has invoked the bilateral agreement between both countries to defend their return, but this possibility requires knowing the family circumstances of each young person and deciding which decision best protects their interests.

While demanding these checks, the far-right Vox continues to present the reception as a problem that must be avoided. "The solution should never be to distribute the problem," Fúster stated. For now, the regional governments in which it participates have already signed the necessary resolutions to receive the 33 minors transferred from Ceuta.