A direct question and an answer that is not so direct: “The Ministry of the Interior does not have statistical data on the number of minors who turn out to be of legal age after carrying out the relevant medical tests.” In this way, Pedro Sánchez’s Executive responds when questioned in parliament about the exact number of immigrants who arrive in our country in 2025, saying that They were minors and after testing them, it turns out that they are adults.
The ministry led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska admits – in response to a written question from the PP in the Senate – not having any type of statistical control in this regard and limits itself to briefly explaining the process that is followed. Thus, it reports that when the State Security Forces and Corps locate an undocumented foreigner “whose minority cannot be established with certainty”you are provided by the competent child protection services with the immediate attention you need, in accordance with the provisions of the legal protection legislation for minors. Fact that will be immediately brought to the attention of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which will arrange for the determination of your age, for which “the appropriate health institutions that, As a matter of priority, they will carry out the necessary tests“.
And that’s it for the Executive’s response or lack thereof on this issue. This is not the case with other issues such as the “call effect” due to the massive regularization of immigrants, where the Sánchez Government is more proactive. So much so that he categorically denies the biggest one: “There is no ‘call effect’ when a temporary period is set to be able to benefit from the extraordinary regularization, with defined and limited dates as is this case. Only who was in our country at least five months before December 31, 2025, and can prove it, you will be able to benefit from this process”.
The data that deny the “call effect”
Again, through a parliamentary response in the Upper House, the Executive ensures that “Previous regularizations deny that this effect occurred”. In this sense, they argue that after the last regularization, in 2005 – in which more than a million immigrants were legalized – the migratory flow was reduced. “In the two previous years (2003 and 2004), 404,000 immigrants entered Spain on an annual average. Three years after regularization (2005-2008), 338,000 people entered, despite the fact that the economy continued to grow,” the government clarifies.
They insist on “economic growth” because in their opinion, the “call effect” of migratory movements is related to the situation in the country of origin of the migrants, and with the economic cycle and the labor market of the destination country. For this reason, they boast that Spain is “an economy that has been growing for several years above the European average”, with more than 600,000 jobs in 2025, and despite this, the arrival of immigrants after massive regularization does not increase.
From here, the Executive goes off on a tangent. “The most effective way to confront the migratory phenomenon and fight against networks of human trafficking and migrant smuggling is migratory cooperation with the countries of origin and transit,” explains the Government, as an introduction to the many achievements and agreements it maintains with Morocco and that they have generated so much controversy.
After carrying out an exhaustive analysis of the migratory pressure that comes from Africa and the factors that cause it, they emphasize that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has made “official visits to Mauritania, Gambia and Senegalwith the aim of strengthening bilateral cooperation.” Not to mention the multiple meetings in which they participate at all levels to “fight against the mafias”.
I ignore national police and civil guards
Finally, it lists all the actions carried out at the operational level and which includes, among others: the deployment of National Police and Civil Guard troops in several African partner countries, to support their migration management and border control work; direct budget aid to contribute to cover some of the expenses incurred by African partners in its border control activities and immigration management; joint investigation teams; delivery of operational material; training and training of our partners’ security forces; joint patrols by land, sea and air permanent exchanges of operational information.
And all this, while our State Security Forces and Corps denounce the lack of human and technical resources to fight against illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Faced with this, the silence due to the response of the Ministry of the Interior and the disregard of its owner, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who has no qualms about boasting about the “direct aid” or the “delivery of operational material” to the Moroccan gendarmes.