The Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso will establish order when it comes to welcoming unaccompanied foreign minors in the region: neither those adults who pose as children, nor those who “are sent by their own parents so that the Administration bears its obligations”, constituting a kind of “erasmus”. In both cases, the regional government will report the situation to the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office.
This is how he advanced it the Minister of Family, Youth and Social Affairs of the Community of Madrid, Ana Dáviladuring the Madrid Breakfasts organized by Europa Press. «This is a common practice of the mafias, who take advantage of the fact that the Government of Spain has a system that refuses to reform. For Madrid, these behaviors can constitute a crime of fraud and that is why we are going to act immediately,” said the counselor.
Sources from the regional Executive confirm that, between 2024 and 2025, nearly fifty false minors have been identified: 29 last year and 19 so far in 2025.
Within the same “sack” of “legal fraud” Dávila included families who send their children to Spain so that the Administration can shoulder its responsibility. And in any case, “the protection system” is put at risk: resources are displaced, which “puts truly vulnerable minors in danger,” he added.
«It is a scam and an abandonment. Firmness in the face of illegality and opportunities for those who come to work and contribute to common progress. Madrid will continue to be a land of welcome, but never complicit in Pedro Sánchez’s misrule or the call effect that is destroying our protection system,” he stressed.
Controversy
One of the most controversial cases related to “false menas” It happened last August, after a young man was accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl at the Hortaleza shelter. After the arrest of the alleged aggressor, the order concluded that, after having been subjected to various medical tests, it had been determined that his most probable biological age was greater than 18 years.
As for the “menas-Erasmus”, the modus operandi is repeated in several autonomous communities: wealthy families from Morocco and Algeria travel to Spain with a tourist visa and, after spending a period of time in the country, they leave the minors in police stations.
As LA RAZÓN recently published, the parents, according to police investigations, were from wealthy sectors: Algerian politicians and Moroccan police officers. In fact, the police detected that these teenagers They owned iPhone phones and expensive suitcases.
In recent months, the distribution of minors has constituted one of the judicial gaps between the Ayuso Government and the Executive of Pedro Sánchez. Thus, last September, the Community of Madrid presented its third appeal in this regard before the Supreme Court against the latest state decree. This judicial appeal occurred after the two previous ones presented by the autonomous Administration: the first against the Royal Decree-Law of March 18 and the second, against the development decree approved along the same lines in the Council of Ministers on July 22.
The first was challenged by the Community of Madrid and 10 other regions before the Constitutional Court for “invading exclusive powers in the protection of minors and social assistance, lack of justification of urgency and using an inadequate instrument to regulate matters reserved for organic laws.”
The second was presented by the regional government on July 30 before the Supreme Court. The reason was the regulations approved by the Central Executive on July 22, which regulated the measures to be adopted in a situation of “extraordinary” migratory contingency for the protection of the best interests of unaccompanied immigrant children and adolescents.