Only the most heinous regimes traffic in their own citizens in order to achieve foreign policy goals.

We are seeing it on the Ceuta border, with

the Moroccan authorities attempting to force a change in Spain's policy on Western Sahara

, but we have also seen it in Turkey, where President

Erdogan

usually throws thousands of asylum seekers and refuge against European borders every time you want to put pressure on the EU.

This practice fits into the

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