Spain’s migration policy largely depends on its Moroccan neighbor. Also, at a time when Madrid aligned itself with Rabat’s position on Western Sahara, Spanish diplomacy had in mind the clandestine migratory flows which reach, from Morocco, its autonomous enclaves, Ceuta and Melilla, same as the Canary Islands, off the Moroccan coast.
Until February 23, eight out of ten people who entered Spanish territory illegally came from Morocco or the Western Sahara region, according to figures from the Spanish national police published by The country. “The proportion was even higher in 2018, when Spain received the highest number of illegal immigrants in its history,” adds center left newspaper.
For the very conservative daily The reason, there is no doubt that the “migratory pressure” exercised