4,800 migrants and refugees have already been sent back to Morocco.
Spain does not grant Moroccans asylum status.
Spanish legionnaires attend to a Moroccan citizen at El Tarajal beach, near the fence between the Spanish-Moroccan border, after thousands of migrants swam across this border during last days, in Ceuta, Spain, May 18, 2021. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
Madrid ups border security in North African enclave, returns thousands to Morocco, and fires tear gas into buffer zone.
In a bid to prevent more people’s arrival in Ceuta, Spain has upped security along its shared border with Morocco, fired tear gas into the buffer zone between the countries, and returned people who have managed to cross into its enclave in North Africa.
