The Minister of Youth denies "any mass deportation" and responds to Ayuso's PP's refusal to host migrant minors from Ceuta: "We are not going to accept it"

The Sectoral Conference on Childhood and Adolescence of the Ministry of Youth and Childhood has approved, together with the autonomous communities, the extraordinary aid package of 25 million euros for the care of migrant children in Ceuta, given the absence of Vox. However, some counselors, such as the one from the Government of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, have refused to accept the distribution of unaccompanied migrant minors who are in Ceuta after the massive entry of people between July 30 and 31. 

In this context, the Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, has responded to the refusal of the popular Ana Dávila by stating: “We are not going to accept it – the deportations of minors. We are going to implement all the mechanisms established by law.” 

Likewise, Rego has detailed that the Ministry initiated the procedure on July 31 to launch the 25 million euro allocation approved this Thursday. The minister also recalled that, during the meeting she held on August 8 with the president of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, and counselor Gaitán, she already proposed as “fundamental” to establish a “binding and solidarity” reception system in the Peninsula that would allow reducing the pressure on the autonomous city.

As she explained, this coordination between administrations has already allowed almost 700 children who were in Ceuta before July 30 to be taken in outside the city.

Ayuso's Government rejects the distribution of minors 

 Before entering the meeting between Childhood and the communities, the Community of Madrid presided over by Isabel Díaz Ayuso has rejected supporting the distribution of minors who are in the autonomous city. In this regard, the person in charge of conveying the refusal has been the Minister of Family, Youth and Social Affairs of the Community of Madrid, Ana Dávila, who has expressed that they reject "any type of distribution" of unaccompanied migrant minors.

"We attend exclusively in support of Ceuta, that autonomous city that continues to be abandoned by the Government of Spain. We will continue to demand that the Government of Spain act, protect the borders and provide more resources to Ceuta and all autonomous communities that receive massive irregular arrivals of immigrants," clarified the Minister of Youth.

The counselor has announced that her party would reject incorporating that matter into the agenda, since, as she explained, it was not initially contemplated. In this sense, she has blamed the central Executive for the situation generated in Ceuta and has insisted that it acted despite knowing beforehand what could happen: "The collegiate body approved an agenda and it does not contain that point, so we are going to vote against including that point. The Government of Spain has to solve a problem it has generated in Ceuta by not protecting the borders when it knew what was going to happen," she stressed.

Dávila has also extended her criticism to the Government's entire migration policy and has assured that its effects are being assumed by all autonomous communities. Specifically, she has warned that they have been receiving a high number of minors in these types of circumstances for three years: "all" autonomous communities "are suffering from this reckless migration policy" of the central Executive. She has warned that they have been receiving "massively minors in these types of situations for three years now."

Regarding the situation of minors, Dávila has assured that there is concern for their situation, although she has especially directed her criticism to the consequences she attributes to Pedro Sánchez's policies, which she has defined as a model based on mandatory distributions and open borders: the situation of minors "is concerning", but especially the one that "Pedro Sánchez is generating" with a policy "of forced distributions and open doors that is also taking many lives."

Finally, she has defended the presence of her party in Ceuta to show its support for the city, although she has differentiated that support from any backing for the actions of the central Executive: "We come to support Ceuta, which is assuming alone, with a Government of Spain that has left it absolutely abandoned, an absolutely dramatic situation. We are here to support Ceuta, but not to support the inaction of the Government of Spain," she concluded.