ACN Press
The departure of the boats from Mauritania with intensity these days confirms that the international community has made a serious mistake in seeking a long-term solution and betting only on the police route, which requires a new way of addressing this phenomenon that does not cease with time but worsens more.
In this framework, sources from the Moroccan Association of Communication emphasize that "several factors indicate that this phenomenon will not cease in the immediate future and not even in the medium term, since materially the boats used are the canoes that resist in the sea much more than the classic boats, and it is estimated that there are about ten thousand between the Mauritanian and Senegalese coast, which guarantees the main instrument to navigate and there is no shortage of customers".
He also adds that young Africans "believe they have the right to travel clandestinely or legally to the West, since there are press articles in some countries where young people, even some intellectuals, argue that their countries were savagely looted by the colonial powers until the 60s and now it is up to the West to pay through illegal immigration".
Taufik M., an expert in immigration, states that "among the effective solutions, the Euro-African summit on immigration that the EU countries must set a quota annually to African countries, since the EU needs immigrants to alleviate the deficit registered in the demography, therefore this measure of receiving annually a percentage of Africans would undoubtedly have an impact, in this case because a large part of the immigrants will submit applications to enter the EU legally".
He points out that "Spain as a transit country must promote this strategy that the EU must legally receive African labor, otherwise, Spain will always be the most affected country and specifically the Canary Islands for being the most accessible territory for sub-Saharans".
On the other hand, sources close to the Moroccan government explained to ACN: "We have been trying for years to convince that the policy of pressure on Rabat to increase surveillance on the coasts is not the ideal solution, because you cannot put doors to the hurricane of despair that plagues the African continent, it is necessary to combine security measures with economic and social measures".
Concluding that "reality has shown that not all illegal immigrants who arrive on the Spanish coast, especially in the Canary Islands, set sail from Morocco, that is why our position is not to sign a readmission agreement with Brussels until we clarify the nationality of the illegals and how they arrive on European territory and if they really pass through our country".