# Spain says ‘most’ of Ceuta’s 2,000 unaccompanied minors will not return to Morocco

https://mins.news/en/item/67211

- euronews, 2026-09-21 10:48 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/21/most-of-ceutas-2000-unaccompanied-minors-will-not-return-to-morocco-spain-says

> Youth and Children’s Minister Sira Rego told Cadena SER that the law protects unaccompanied foreign minors who reject family reunification schemes. As a result, most of the roughly 2,000 unaccompanied minors in Ceuta will not return to Morocco.

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