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Added on the 03/06/2021 18:45:52 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Dozens of migrants queue at Spain's Ceuta border to return to Morocco after an unprecedented 8,000 people crossed into the Spanish enclave earlier this week. Most of the arrivals are young men and teenagers, who swam to the beaches of Ceuta to find work and escape the grinding poverty, unemployment and hunger back home in Morocco which has been worsened by the Covid pandemic. IMAGES
Castillejos, May 19 (EFE) .- Around three hundred Moroccan migrants staged riots Wednesday night and confronted the police while trying to cross the police deployment in Castillejos, almost a kilometer from the main road to the Spanish North African city of Ceuta. (Camera : MOHAMED SIALI)SHOT LIST: RIOTS IN CASTILLEJOS, MOROCCO.
Ceuta (Spain), May 19 (EFE). (Camera: Juan Chicano) .- The Ceuta border between Morocco and Spain dawned this Wednesday with only a few dozen immigrants trying to swim, a situation that differs from the registered two days ago, when people began to arrive from the neighboring country that reached 8,000, half of which have been returned, according to the Spanish Government.FOOTAGE OF THE SITUATION IN THE BORDER BETWEEN SPAIN AND MOROCCO
A Moroccan man suffocated to death in a suitcase while being smuggled into Spain in the trunk of a car, according to the Spanish government.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the UK and Rwanda are eyeing a new deal on asylum seekers, after Britain's highest court ruled that removing migrants to the African country was unlawful. "If it becomes clear that our domestic legal frameworks or international conventions are still frustrating plans at that point, I am prepared to change our laws and revisit those international relationships," he tells lawmakers during the weekly prime minister's questions in parliament. SOUNDBITE
Migrants in Mexico's Matamoros cross the Rio Grande in an attempt to enter the United States a day before the end of so-called Title 42, a set of pandemic-era restrictions that have forbidden virtually all asylum claims there in the last years. IMAGES