La Generalitat ha atendido en el primer semestre del año a 205 menores extranjeros no acompañados. Son los conocidos como MENAS. Jóvenes que no tienen a nadie en la Comunitat, que emprendieron un duro viaje cargado de esperanza para sacar de la miseria a sus familias. Muchos han arribados a las costas valencianas en patera. Otros en los bajos de camiones. También los hay que han llegado polizones en barcos. Todos han sido auxiliados.
En lo que va de año, la Conselleria de Bienestar Social ha asistido a 652 menores extranjeros entre enero y junio de este año. De ellos, un centenar de casos han entrado nuevos al sistema de protección.
La mayoría de los jóvenes asistidos son menores acompañados (446) que han acabado en la red asistencial del Gobierno valenciano por diferentes motivos, que van desde el desamparo de los padres a las dificultades económicas de estos. De hecho, la falta de dinero y la ausencia de pautas de los progenitores por la cultura diferente (como dejar a los niños que estén en la calle hasta altas horas de la noche o el absentismo escolar) hacen que cada vez haya más hijos de familias extranjeras tutelados.
Sin embargo, por primera vez desde que comenzó el fenómeno de la inmigración, la llegada de estos adolescentes desamparados a Valencia, Alicante y Castellón ha disminuido. La crisis económica está detrás de esta tendencia. La progresión de hace una década se ha ralentizado. Entonces, el sistema de protección atendió a 1.749 menores extranjeros. Hoy, 651.
Sobre el régimen en el que permanecen los adolescentes acogidos en el primer semestre de 2012, medio millar están bajo tutela y 129 en guarda. La mayoría en acogimiento residencial y el resto, con alguna familia. La Comunitat dispone de ocho centros para ellos con 87 plazas. «La atención residencial de menores extranjeros se está realizando también en cualquiera de los centros de la red de protección de la que disponemos, especialmente en los centros de recepción», explica la directora general del Menor, Carolina Martínez.
El perfil de los jóvenes que están bajo el paraguas de la Generalitat es claro. Hay más varones que mujeres y los países de procedencia siguen siendo Marruecos, Rumanía y Argelia. Muchos de los MENA tienen 17 años. La determinación de la edad es uno de los problemas a los que se enfrentan las administraciones. Muchos se hacen pasar por menores por la tutela. La Fiscalía de Valencia atajó estas situaciones al realizar una triple prueba: la radiológica (de boca y clavícula), la exploración física y las entrevistas.
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200 menores extranjeros son tutelados en seis meses al estar solos en la Comunitat

La Generalitat ha atendido en el primer semestre del año a 205 menores extranjeros no acompañados. Son los conocidos como MENAS. Jóvenes que...
The judge called his next case, scanning the courtroom.

The immigrant who was facing deportation rose to his feet, in a clean T-shirt and khaki pants several sizes too large, with his name - JUAN - printed on a tag around his neck.

But the judge could not see him. Juan's head did not rise above the court's benches.

Juan David Gonzalez was 6 years old. He was in the court, which would decide whether to expel him from the country, without a parent - and also without a lawyer.

Immigration courts in this South Texas border town and across the country are confronting an unexpected surge of children, some of them barely school age, who traveled here without parents and were caught as they tried to cross illegally into the United States.

The young people, mostly from Mexico and Central America, ride to the border on the roofs of freight trains or the backs of buses. They crossed the Rio Grande on inner tubes, or hike for days through extremes of heat and chill in Arizona deserts. The smallest children, like Juan, are most often brought by smugglers.

The youths pose troubling difficulties for American immigration courts. Unlike in criminal or family courts, in immigration court there is no right to a lawyer paid by the government for people who cannot afford one. And immigration law contains few protections specifically for minors. So even a child as young as Juan has to go before an immigration judge - confronting a prosecutor and trying to fight deportation - without the help of a lawyer, if one is not privately provided.

So far this year, more than 11,000 unaccompanied minors have been placed in deportation proceedings, nearly double last year's numbers.

Young migrants say they are fleeing sharply escalating criminal violence in their home countries. Federal agencies have scrambled to muster adequate detention facilities, while legal advocates try to find lawyers to represent them. Judges, for their part, have struggled to offer fair hearings to penniless youths who speak little English and often do not even understand why they are in court.

The influx has heightened concerns that young people without legal help may not be able to obtain even the most basic justice.

"It is almost impossible for children to receive relief in immigration court on their own," said Meredith Linsky, the director of the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project, known as ProBar, a nonprofit organization that defends young migrants in the region. "The reality is they cannot comprehend the system and what is being asked of them."

Judge Howard Achtsam postponed Juan's proceedings, but he warned the boy and other minors in the courtroom.

"If you do not have a lawyer," the judge said, "you need to be ready to speak for yourselves at your next hearing."

Juan left holding the social worker's hand, grinning proudly when she told him he had done well. But his case was just beginning. Most likely it would end with a final order for his deportation.

http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Immigration-courts-see-surge-in-children-3815806.php#ixzz24eGAdwzW



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