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Refugees & Migration
By: RE Date: May 20, 2021, 6:41 pm
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The Refugees in Spain rain mainly on Ceuta.
These holdovers from the colonial era are just stupid. WTF does
Britain own Gibraltar? ::)
The main question here is how long before the Eurotrash simply
torpedo any boats leaving the North African coast?
RE
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EXPLAINER: Spain’s migrant crisis in North Africa
By KARL RITTERyesterday
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Spanish Army soldiers expel a migrant from the Spanish enclave
of Ceuta, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. About 8,000 people have
streamed into the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco in the past
two days in an unprecedented influx of migrants, most of them
swimming across the border to reach the Spanish enclave in North
Africa. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Spanish Army soldiers expel a migrant from the Spanish enclave
of Ceuta, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. About 8,000 people have
streamed into the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco in the past
two days in an unprecedented influx of migrants, most of them
swimming across the border to reach the Spanish enclave in North
Africa. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
About 8,000 people have streamed into the Spanish city of Ceuta
from Morocco in the past two days in an unprecedented influx,
most of them swimming around breakwaters and across the border
to reach the Spanish enclave in North Africa.
The surge has strained relations between Morocco and Spain, with
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez canceling a trip to Paris
to make an unscheduled visit to Ceuta, where Spain has deployed
military reinforcements and police along the border. Here’s a
look at what’s going on:
WHERE IS CEUTA?
Ceuta is a coastal city in North Africa that has belonged to
Spain since the 16th century. Like Melilla, another Spanish
possession on the Moroccan coast, Ceuta in recent decades has
become a flashpoint for migrants from Morocco and sub-Saharan
Africa seeking to enter Europe.
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Last year about 2,200 people crossed into Ceuta and Melilla by
scaling border fences or swimming from the Moroccan side. Ceuta
has a population of 85,000 and is connected to mainland Spain by
ferry services across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar.
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CEUTA?
Migrants regularly make it across the border in small numbers,
but the scale of the crossings this week is exceptional.
Thousands of people were able to reach the border area without
being stopped by Moroccan authorities.
About 8,000, including 2,000 believed to be minors, reached
Ceuta in the past two days by swimming or paddling in small
boats around breakwaters separating the two countries. Most were
Moroccans, though there were also migrants from sub-Saharan
Africa.
Spain deployed troops and armored vehicles to the border on
Tuesday, rounding up migrants on a beach and sending many of
them back to Morocco through a gate in the border fence. The Red
Cross says one young man died and dozens were treated for
hypothermia.
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WHAT IS BEHIND THE SURGE?
Morocco has said little about why it relaxed the border
controls, though it was widely seen as retaliation against Spain
for having allowed the leader of a militant group, Brahim Ghali,
to receive medical treatment in a Spanish hospital.
Two Moroccan officials made that link in public comments on
Wednesday. Ghali heads the Polisario Front, which is fighting
for an independent Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony that
Morocco annexed in the 1970s. He was hospitalized in the Spanish
city of Logrono last month in a move that angered Morocco’s
government, which warned there would be “consequences.”
Some experts say the issue goes beyond Ghali and that Morocco
wants Spain to support Morocco’s sovereignty over Western
Sahara, like the U.S. did under the Trump administration last
year.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MIGRANTS NOW?
Spain’s Interior Ministry said about half of those who made it
across have already been sent back to Morocco.
Under a three-decade-old agreement between the two countries,
Spanish authorities can return adults who cross the border
irregularly. On Tuesday, Spanish soldiers could be seen
directing migrants toward a border gate, in some cases hitting
them with batons to make them hurry up.
An AP reporter saw several children among those being pushed
back, even though the Spanish government claimed that no
unaccompanied minors were being returned. Many of the
unaccompanied minors were being held in quarantine in warehouse
shelters run by the Red Cross.
WHAT ARE THE WIDER IMPLICATIONS FOR SPAIN?
The developments in Ceuta have become one of the biggest crisis
in relations between Spain and Morocco since 2002, when a
territorial dispute erupted over an uninhabited island off the
Moroccan coast. It represents a humanitarian, diplomatic and
political challenge for Sánchez’s government.
In recent years Spain has seen spikes in migrant arrivals on its
southern coast as well as in the Canary Islands, sparking
concerns over migration that have helped fuel the rise of Vox, a
far-right party that entered Parliament in 2019.
Vox was quick to blame the situation in Ceuta on the
government’s “inaction” and its leader visited the city on
Tuesday.
HOW DOES THIS AFFECT MIGRATION ACROSS EUROPE?
Other European Union nations are watching the developments in
Ceuta carefully. Since Europe’s migrant crisis in 2015, the bloc
has tried to reduce the flow of irregular migrants to Europe in
part by seeking agreements with transit countries — including
Morocco, Turkey and Libya — to hold back migrants.
The situation in Ceuta and a similar crisis on Turkey’s land
border with Greece last year show how such deals can give
transit countries plenty of leverage over the 27-nation EU.
The bloc’s Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson called the
Ceuta influx “worrying” and noted that Spain’s border with
Morocco is also the EU’s external border. She urged Morocco to
prevent more people from crossing it irregularly.
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Re: Refugees & Migration
By: Phil Potts Date: May 21, 2021, 6:28 pm
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It will be interesting to see how Africa plays out now with
Chinese involvement. I visited there over 20 yrs ago and met
quite a few people. It was normal then for the wealthier to have
3-5 children and the poor to have 7-9, so a steady supply of
immigrants from there was always guaranteed.
For most of the last 200 yrs the west has extracted mostly
mineral resources, diamonds and gold with only some crops like
cocoa and coffee from Africa. Today, China's projects are
creating a lot of jobs and we know that busily employed women
greatly delay and curtail having children. If you got 50% into
that category where they generally have at most 2 children, it
would at least bring them down to an overall average of around
4. China being focussed on also extracting all foods from
Africa, will be no doubt aware that will not be possible, unless
they can halt the population expansion.
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