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The Government has intervened forcefully to address the avalanche of asylum requests from Moroccan citizens registered in the first days of this month.

For the moment, it has already rejected the first 19 requests from asylum seekers from Moroccans who entered Ceuta on May 17 and 18, taking advantage of the diplomatic crisis that Morocco opened with

Spain

due to the presence in the country of the leader of the Polisario Front.

Brahim Ghali

.

Aware of the problems caused and fearing that it could become chronic, the

Office of Asylum and Refuge

of the

Ministry of the Interior

has processed these requests very quickly to give them agility.

It has been the

Interministerial Commission for Asylum and Refuge

(CIAR), in which several ministries participate, which has resolved the first files denying the request.

The next step after this rejection is to proceed with the immediate expulsion of the migrants, as specified by police sources consulted by this newspaper.

This process begins with the expression of the will to asylum and to date 109 have been formalized, of which 19 have been challenged by not meeting the requirements established by law, indicated the same sources consulted.

In addition, this week about a hundred Moroccan citizens have returned to their country from

Ceuta

, some of them with expulsion proceedings, with which the city is returning to a certain normality after the maelstrom caused by the opening of borders by from

Rabat

.

The step that CIAR has taken and the time in which it has done it is tremendously significant considering the numbers that this matter threw at the beginning of the month.

Then, asylum requests at the Ceuta border by Moroccans who entered the city illegally increased to exceed the presence in the area of ​​more than 300 people.

According to police sources explained at that time, these Moroccans were part of the group of people who entered the city illegally and were living in the open due to their refusal to return to Morocco.

The Moroccan immigrants were submitting this application, after which they left the border waiting to return to attend the appointment to study their situation.

The same sources indicated that the group refused to return voluntarily to their country and that they used to sleep well in private houses or in the mountains of the city.

The avalanche of requests, many of them due to the call effect, put the offices at risk of collapse, whose staff were not enough to meet the demand imposed by asylum seekers.

For this reason, the Asylum and Refugee Office took note and decided to address all the files as soon as possible.

The agents of

the National Police Corps

were also totally overwhelmed by this unusual situation that was repeated for two days in the autonomous city of Ceuta.

Giving output to these files was essential for the Office of Asylum and Refuge of the Ministry of the Interior since when a person requests asylum and in a month that request is not resolved, that administrative silence empowers, in some way, the migrant to move around the national territory.

In principle, all asylum applications for humanitarian reasons are processed unless the official who receives them perceives "unequivocally indications of lack of veracity", state the same sources consulted.

For example, the most widely used arguments for requesting asylum is persecution for religious, sexual or ideological reasons in their countries of origin.

The Asylum Office continues to process the rest of the applications to give them a route and that they do not accumulate.

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