Spain’s government, praised in the last year as more welcoming of immigrants than other European countries, has partnered with Morocco to stop migrants from crossing its borders, or sometimes even approaching — prompting outcry from human rights groups.
turned away by Italy and Malta in June — prompted the nation to open a temporary refugee camp in Cadiz.
In many cases, police send immigrants to the south of Morocco, instead of back to their home countries. “Each day [the police] come to break into the houses of the migrants who are here, to catch them and take them away to Tiznit,” a city in southern Morocco, said Mbaye, 30. Police watch over some of the hundreds of migrants that managed to get past the border fence in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave bordering Morocco, in July 2018.
“Legally, it’s a very distinct situation from the migrants who we sometimes have to rescue,” Spanish Vice President Carmen Calvo said in August, calling what happened at the Ceuta border “unacceptable.”
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