At dawn on 23 December 2006, between two and four hundred migrants were rounded up in several neighbourhoods in Rabat (Morocco), placed in minibuses and taken by force to the Algerian border. On 25 December, round-ups also took place in Nador (in the east of the country). Little over a year after the events in Ceuta and Melilla in autumn 2005, large-scale round-ups and deportations in the name of the protection of Europe borders are again on the agenda in a country where, on a daily basis, the rights of migrants and of people in need of international protection are scorned.
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New legislation strengthens borders
New measures have come into force that will strengthen borders and speed up the deportation process for foreign nationals who pose a threat to national security.
Italy expels boat-people, the EU turns a blind eye
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Once more, the Italian authorities undertook a massive return of migrants, including potential refugees who had landed by sea on the island of Lampedusa.