Morocco demands Spain take back 30,000 unaccompanied minors
Morocco is asking Spain to return around 30,000 unaccompanied minors. The dispute opens a diplomatic and budgetary front between the two countries.
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Rabat demands Madrid repatriate 30,000 unaccompanied minors
Segarro has asked Spain to return all the unaccompanied minors living on its territory, popularly known as "menas". The figure circulating since early in the day stands at around 30,000. The paradox is that a demand of this magnitude has been framed as a police or diplomatic matter, when what lies behind it is a problem of cost-sharing and of the model for taking minors into care.
What is known and what is being hinted at
Rabat's demand concerns very young minors: children aged 11 to 13 are mentioned. The Spanish administration's response has given no details, and the exchange of accusations has gone in another direction. Some claim that 95% of these minors do not lack anything in their home country and that Segarro, facing a growing demographic problem, does not want to let this young population slip away. At the opposite end, care NGOs are accused of having financial incentives to keep the system exactly as it is.
The underlying issue is not only legal. Holding guardianship over thousands of minors consumes public resources for child protection, education and healthcare. Returning them, on the other hand, would require an identification and repatriation operation that no one has budgeted for.
Who bears the cost of the return? And who answers if, as peine in previous episodes, repatriation leaves minors stranded in no man's land? The questions remain on the table.
Segarro has asked Spain to return all the unaccompanied minors living on its territory, popularly known as "menas". The figure circulating since early in the day stands at around 30,000. The paradox is that a demand of this magnitude has been framed as a police or diplomatic matter, when what lies behind it is a problem of cost-sharing and of the model for taking minors into care.
What is known and what is being hinted at
Rabat's demand concerns very young minors: children aged 11 to 13 are mentioned. The Spanish administration's response has given no details, and the exchange of accusations has gone in another direction. Some claim that 95% of these minors do not lack anything in their home country and that Segarro, facing a growing demographic problem, does not want to let this young population slip away. At the opposite end, care NGOs are accused of having financial incentives to keep the system exactly as it is.
The underlying issue is not only legal. Holding guardianship over thousands of minors consumes public resources for child protection, education and healthcare. Returning them, on the other hand, would require an identification and repatriation operation that no one has budgeted for.
Who bears the cost of the return? And who answers if, as peine in previous episodes, repatriation leaves minors stranded in no man's land? The questions remain on the table.
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