Thread: Morocco Deporting Would-Be Immigrants

http://www.wral.com/apworldnews/5078001/detail.html

OUJDA, Morocco -- Morocco, at the center of an immigration crisis of Africans seeking to get to Europe, began deporting would-be immigrants Monday, starting with a flight carrying 140 Senegalese.

The Royal Air Maroc flight took off from Oujda, in northeast Morocco, and was headed for Dakar. Moroccan police were also aboard the flight, although the passengers were not handcuffed.

The Africans were picked up around Morocco, including near Spanish enclaves on the northern Moroccan coast that have been rushed by waves of immigrants in recent weeks.

Morocco, the gateway to Europe for many sub-Saharan Africans fleeing poverty, has been at the center of the immigration crisis since the Africans stormed razor-wire border fences around the Spanish enclaves, and at least a dozen have been killed.

And our government doesn't do a thing. It would only cost our government 99 dollars per person. They have flights from Cincy to Cancun for 99 dollars one way. 8 flights a week.

The deportees are not handcuffed? I would consider them a risk to the flight crew if not handcuffed. But then, the penalities for breaking the law in these stated countries are really really bad. Makes me wonder how they would even dare to enter Morocco illegally.

I keep wondering how these 'poor downtrodden' people are getting the CASH to make their dash???

RR