The absurdity of immigration control by Fernando’s Interior Ministry Great Marlaska with Morocco has no limits according to the surrealist story experienced by the police at Madrid-Barajas airport in the early hours of last Monday. The plan was to return Morocco to 50 illegal immigrants, but 39 of them refused to board on the flight and the other eleven were sent back to Spain through the neighboring country as soon as they arrive on Moroccan soil. Result: none of the 50 immigrants was expelled and Fernando Grande Marlaska’s Interior Ministry wasted human and material resources on this failed operation.
This new episode of immigration decontrol began on the night of Sunday September 29 at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport. At this time, the Ministry of the Interior was preparing to expel to Morocco 50 illegal immigrants who had not obtained the right to asylum in Spain.
The 50 immigrants were scheduled to return to Morocco on a regular private airline flight, but by the time they boarded, 39 of them they refuse to steal and they express their opposition forcefully by constraining the pilot. The captain, faced with the threatening attitude of the immigrants, decided not to take them on his plane because “they would compromise security on board the ship”. THE Police He could do nothing other than return the 39 “mutineers” to the asylum rooms at the Madrid airfield.
Morocco returned them
Only 11 of the 50 immigrants rejected by Spain made it to Morocco on Sunday evening, but they were back in Spain before finishing early Monday. As soon as they set foot on land, Morocco sent the eleven immigrants back to Spain and it was the police officers who accompanied them until the flight who welcomed them again a few hours later.
The result of Operation Marlaska is zero illegal immigrants repatriated to Morocco. According to police sources, this is not the first time this has happened.
Airport sources say immigrants who enter Spain illegally to seek asylum have two ways to avoid repatriation.
The first of these consists, explain the same sources, of asking for asylum again and again even if the judges refuse it. Spanish law does not set a limit on asylum requests and, therefore, immigrants whose asylum has been refused manage to settle indefinitely in the Barajas neighborhoods until the state finds a solution for them, such as transfer to a reception center for applicants.
Police are also familiar with another trick used by immigrants to avoid being repatriated to their country. This is not the first time that, moments before boarding a return flight to their country organized by the Grande-Marlaska ministry, immigrants refuse to board the plane and protest forcefully and somewhat aggressively, when not directly threatening to cause altercations during the flight. flight. Faced with such a situation, many pilots refuse to board immigrants because they believe that this could compromise the safety of the flight and the rest of the travelers. The result is the same, immigrants are sent back to the asylum seekers’ rooms, which gradually become saturated.
The prosecution warns
Precisely, the latest annual report from the Madrid Public Prosecutor’s Office warns that during the last quarter of 2023, there was “a massive arrival of unaccompanied migrants without papers and in an uncontrolled manner via the Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport, on flights from Casablanca and to various South American countries, which do not require a transit visa.
The prosecution warns that all this “has favored irregular immigration and the proliferation of arrivals of people who say they lack papers and who, once in the transit zone, do not continue their journey but request asylum in our country, causing the airport to collapse. ” but also the means of reception.
According to the Madrid Public Prosecutor’s Office, “there were 213 age determination procedures in 2022, compared to 404 in 2023; 203 during the months of November and December, leaving 94 awaiting opening on December 31, because it was not possible to cope with the avalanche of daily files of this nature (more than 25 on some days) which were concluded. section, and that “They are in addition to the many other cases that are being handled and fall within this area.”
