In 2017, US President Donald Trump signed a decree banning nationals from seven Muslim countries from entering the United States. This decision, revealing a great Islamophobia, has caused the separation of several families whose members are scattered around the world.
A Filipino domestic worker in Casablanca died under unresolved circumstances. This prompted the leaders of the Solidarity Instance with Asian Immigrants (ISIA) to speak out. They expressed their frustration with the exploitation of Asian domestic workers in Morocco.
As of January 1, 2019, the number of Moroccans residing in Spain reached 714,239, according to the National Institute of Statistics. They thus top the list of foreign communities in the Iberian country. In comparable data, the year 2018 recorded the arrival of more than 32,000 Moroccans in Spain.
According to a study by the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), people born to immigrant parents, particularly North Africans, have a 1.7 times higher risk of dying before the age of 65. Certain factors are at the origin of this hypothesis.
A Dutch national of Moroccan origin was sentenced by the Ghent Court of Appeal in Belgium to 12 years in prison for setting up a drug trafficking network. He is accused, along with his cousin, of having sold more than 210 kilos of heroin, and of causing the death of 3 people who died of overdose.
Moroccan national Mohamed Soltana surrendered to the police last week after being on the run since May 6. He had shot a woman in her car in the German city of Aufenbach.
The German national police services arrested a 45-year-old Moroccan national for insults and insults against two Jews in the city of Hamburg, northern Germany.
The issue of Moroccans living abroad will be addressed soon by the Head of Government, Saad-Eddine El Othmani. He will try to respond to several grievances as Morocco prepares to welcome hundreds of thousands of Moroccans living abroad this summer.
The case of Moroccan workers in the strawberry fields in Spain will be brought back to court. The lawyer for the plaintiffs has appealed, after the latter filed a complaint with the Spanish National Police.
The passage of nearly half of illegal migrants through Morocco would not leave good memories, according to a report published by the Spanish agency CSIC (Higher Council for Scientific Research), done in collaboration with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees).
"Lampedusa" is the title of the song that Najat Vallaud-Belkacem has just written. This song deals with immigration, a subject to which she pays particular attention, as evidenced by this artistic creation. This song is performed by Sarah Kaddour.
Spain currently has about one million Moroccans residing on its soil, of whom 250,000 are in an illegal situation, according to figures just released by the National Institute of Statistics for the year 2018.