Spain’s Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díaz said yesterday, when responding to criticism, by Spanish and European institutions, various NGOs including Human Rights Watch, the Catholic Church and others, over “the illegal deportation of migrants from the Ceuta and Melilla borders,” that “if they [the aforementioned organizations who criticize] give me an address where we can move these poor people and they can guarantee their upkeep and give them work, I assure you we will send them.”
“If anyone has a different solution from the one we propose for complying with the law, then tell us,” the Spanish minister further noted.
“From offices in northern Europe where they don’t have this problem, from central Europe, or from other places where they give lectures on humanitarianism, I would tell them to give me an address and we will send them – that said, with the commitment that they are going to look after them and that they are going to give them a job appropriate to their status and their abilities.”
It is worth reminding that Spain has been criticized heavily recently for returning to Morocco Sub-Saharan migrants caught scaling the two cities’ border fences.
The Moroccan Times.
