The president Llorenç Galmés has conveyed to the Minister of Defence ‘his concern for the migratory crisis’ that Mallorca is experiencing and has asked for her collaboration to be able to install temporary facilities, such as tents, given the expected increase of arrivals in the remainder of the year.

This morning, the Consell de Mallorca sent a formal request to the Ministry of Defence for the latter to cede part of the Son Tous area for the temporary emergency care of unaccompanied migrant minors.

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The Consell de Mallorca asks the Ministry of Defence for a space in Son Tous to attend to unaccompanied migrant minors

President Galmés has already expressed in the last Conference of Presidents that ‘the situation we are living and suffering today in our land is limiting, we cannot take in any more unaccompanied minor immigrants, as is our responsibility by law’.

This request responds to the forecast of arrivals that the Mallorcan Institute of Social Affairs (IMAS) is handling for the last months of the year. It is worth remembering that from September to December 2023, 106 arrivals of unaccompanied migrant minors were recorded, which means that the coming months are expected to be complicated in this regard, given that the trend during 2024 has been one of a sharp year-on-year increase.

The Consell de Mallorca considers the former Son Tous barracks to be the most suitable space for the installation of a temporary and emergency resource, such as tents, to have the capacity to attend to unaccompanied migrant minors given the forecast increase in arrivals for the remainder of the year. The suitability of the space, in addition to its layout, is because this is where the UCRIF, the National Police Unit in charge of investigating criminal activities, both national and transnational, related to human trafficking and irregular immigration, first attends to unaccompanied migrant minors arriving in Mallorca.