Spain hopes to transfer migrant minors to mainland within weeks

Government prioritises younger children as reception centres remain overcrowded

MADRID, Aug 7 - Spain's leftist government expects to transfer some migrant minors from overcrowded reception centres in the North African enclave of Ceuta to the mainland within weeks, alleviating the migration crisis in the tiny territory after last week's deadly border rush, Youth Minister Sira Rego said on Friday.

Roughly 1,100 unaccompanied migrant minors who rushed the beaches of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta could soon make it to mainland Spain. The group arrived as unaccompanied minors who authorities can’t immediately deport, according to Reuters. More than 70,000 migrants, mainly adult men from Morocco, arrived in Ceuta wit

Local officials are calling on the government to transfer the 1,100 children to mainland Spain.

Under Spanish immigration law, the children cannot be summarily deported

Spain's Ceuta seeks transfer of unaccompanied migrant minors to mainland Spain after border rush  Reuters

Spain's illegal migrants could soon be at our gates. They know just how generous Labour will be - Katie Lam  GB News

The dead have been recovered from the waters off Ceuta. Most of the migrants who forced their way across the frontier into Spain have gone back to Morocco. In the enclave city, shops are open nearly a week after it became the epicentre of a European migration crisis.

CEUTA, Spain (AP) — The dead have been recovered from the waters off Ceuta. Most of the migrants who forced their way across the frontier into Spain have gone back to Morocco. In the enclave city, shops are open nearly a week after it became the epicenter of a European migration crisis.But an estimated 1,000 minors — a

Children in a strange land: the plight of the 1,000 minor migrants still in Spain’s Ceuta  AP News

The dead have been recovered from the waters off Ceuta. Most of the migrants who forced their way across the frontier into Spain have gone back to Morocco. In the enclave city, shops are open nearly a week after it became the epicenter of a European migration crisis.But an estimated 1,000 minors — among the most vulner