Algerian efforts to challenge illegal immigration

Algeria announced it will intensify its efforts to counter illegal immigration after Morocco demanded it to stop emigrants from crossing its lands to Morocco on their way to Europe.

Algeria announced it will intensify its efforts to counter illegal immigration after Morocco demanded it to stop emigrants from crossing its lands to Morocco on their way to Europe.

The spokesman for the national police forces Abdul Rahman Ayoub said that the police detained in the first six months of this year more than 3,000 emigrants during their attempt to sneak from the Algerian desert to Morocco on their way to Spain in comparison with 2500 emigrants in 2004.

He added that "the authorities recognized the increase in the number of illegal immigrants who cross the borders, adding that this is a big problem as Algeria is a country from whose lands the immigrants cross, and Europe should challenge the problem." He said that the authorities detained 88 emigrants from India and 41 from Pakistan during the first half of this year.

The Moroccan ambassador to the European Union Monawar Alem considered that " if the European Union ignored the source from where the African immigrants come, especially from Algeria, then the problem of immigration will not be solved."

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