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Vox steps up its criticism of the Government over the situation of migrant minors in Ceuta
The party questioned the possibility of transferring children to the mainland and again called for returns to Morocco. It also said that, if the mandatory redistribution is activated, it will try to block it through administrative and judicial channels.
Vox escalated its confrontation with the Spanish Government on Tuesday over the management of foreign minors who remain in Ceuta and accused the Executive of maintaining an “institutionalized kidnapping” by not proceeding with their return to Morocco and by studying their transfer to different parts of the mainland, according to El Mundo and ABC España.
The party’s parliamentary spokesperson, Pepa Millán, said that a possible distribution of those minors would amount to “institutionalized trafficking” and “collaboration with the mafias that traffic in people.” She also blamed the Government and the State Attorney General’s Office for that situation, according to statements reported by both outlets.
According to El Mundo, those transfers have not yet been put into motion and, if carried out, would fall within the current legal framework. The newspaper said that only children who can be reunited with their families or taken in by the Moroccan authorities will be returned to Morocco, always under the criterion of the best interests of the child and with their participation in the process.
Millán said that, if the Government activates Article 35 of the Foreigners Law to force the autonomous communities to receive the minors that Ceuta cannot take in, Vox will comply with the measure where it governs, although “without wanting to take them in,” and will oppose it with the legal and parliamentary tools at its disposal, according to El Mundo.
In that line, the leader explained that her party is promoting measures to make those transfers more difficult, such as repeating age tests and challenging each request for reception through the judicial and administrative route. ABC España added that they also seek to restrict funding to NGOs and demand compliance with the agreements with Morocco for the return of minors.
On the scale of the operation, ABC España reported that 1,500 minors remain in Ceuta and that Vox national spokesperson José Antonio Fúster acknowledged that the communities where the party governs together with the Popular Party have already received 33 minors by legal obligation.
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