Soon the expulsion of irregular sub-Saharan African migrants from the EU the Morocco?

The closure of the southern borders of the European Union will be strengthened. The European Union and the Morocco today signed a mobility partnership. This fall the closed negotiations on the agreement of readmission of irregular sub-Saharan African migrants through the Morocco. EU pushes to assume the Morocco for 10 years.

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Will the European Union finally achieve its goals? While is is open this morning, Friday, 7th June, hearing of the process against 21 Senegalese accused of damage to vehicles and violence against agents of the public authority, the Court of first instance of Rabat, the Morocco signed at the same time, in Luxembourg, on the margins of the Council justice Home Affairs, a "Joint Declaration on a mobility partnership" with the European Union. 21 Senegalese had the message been directed by Senegal in Rabat, may 29, when hundred of them came to complain about the lack of support by their message during the expulsion of 16, late can illegally through the Morocco.

In the framework of the partnership for mobility of the readmission agreement not Moroccan of irregular immigrants from the EU (who come to Morocco in Europe have undergone) pulled that is trying the European Union to sign the Morocco since 2002. "It is unacceptable that reached a unprecedented level the EU plans to sign an agreement of readmission to the same time in Morocco, the violation of the rights of foreigners, migrants and refugees", Stéphane Julinet, foreigners believe correct program and advocacy for the GADEM. Their rights in the same way and much more, endanger the Morocco therefore deriving from irregular immigrants as if they remained in Europe.

Exception for asylum seekers

However, readmission agreement shall not apply to asylum-seekers. All migrants who have made their request for asylum in the UNHCR in Rabat ", even if they're not properly in Spain can taken by the Morocco if they are arrested by the police." The UNHCR in Rabat that applications for the granting of asylum for the Morocco treated forward is not get folder of migrants to Spanish instances responsible for asylum and to reply, can remain the migrant in Spain ", says Marc Fawe, responsible for the external relations of the UNHCR in Rabat.

"The mobility Partnership signed today are a political commitment to negotiate several treaties including the readmission agreement in return facilitation of visa for the Moroccans actually", said Stéphane Julinet. The readmission agreements themselves will be not signed today but a new step in his direction. It is the formalization of the agreement are Morocco and the European Union on the visit of the President of the European Commission, Manuel Barroso, in Rabat, March 1 receive. "It is an unequal agreement: readmission is a pure privilege and hard is, during the visa facilitation hypothetical and conditional are", he believes.

Boats intercepted and returned

If the readmission agreements between Morocco and EU was signed, be it to follow, that all boats with migrants towards the Spanish coast and that of the Guardia Civil, rather than on the Spanish coast, as today, reduced will be caught off reduced after Morocco, regardless of the nationality of the passengers. Ditto for Ceuta and Sebastian whose administrative detention centers are already overcrowded. In theory all inmates of these centres can be returned to the Morocco should, because it cannot be denied that those who arrived from Morocco, passed as specified in the single condition of the readmission agreement.

"But all those who have requested asylum in the Spanish enclaves, Inexpulsables will the time of the procedure," says Mar FAWE. This process can take years. On the other hand, Marc Fawe shows, "readmission agreement exists between Morocco and Spanish, French and Italian. The readmission agreement, which currently is touch discussed throughout the European Union so that change things for irregular migrants in other countries of the European Union. »