He states that it is a “vital” action to “rectify the current situation of overcrowding” concerning minors.
Madrid, Mar. (Europa Press) –
The Supreme Court (TS) has approved the precautionary action requested by the Canarian government and has provided the Executive of Pedro Sánchez with a ten-day timeframe to ensure access to the National International Protection reception system for approximately a thousand unaccompanied migrants currently in the Islands who have applied for asylum or indicated their willingness to do so.
The Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the High Court has deemed this an “essential measure to rectify the existing overcrowding situation in which these minors—according to well-known observations—are blatantly incompatible with the higher interest of the minor that necessitates protection.”
The judges clarify that, “in the present circumstances, these unaccompanied asylum seekers are solely the responsibility of the minor protection system of the Autonomous Community,” without the resources, programmes, and mechanisms of this reception system for asylum seekers, managed by the State, being made accessible to them, “a system to which these minors are fully entitled.”
In this regard, the Third Chamber reminds that the reception system for asylum seekers provides for “the right to receive specific social benefits (…) that encompass the necessary social and reception services to guarantee the satisfaction of their basic needs in dignified conditions.”
The Supreme Court also mandates that, within those ten days, a report be submitted regarding the measures taken. Following this period, it has indicated that the Third Chamber will determine whether to hold a public hearing concerning the implementation of the precautionary measure adopted.
