Not Spanish, nor Moroccan: these young people condemned to a life of "ghosts

According to the testimonies collected by El Faro de Ceuta, these young people face a major bureaucratic impasse. The Spanish administration refuses to register them, while Morocco does not recognize them as nationals due to their birth on Iberian soil. Without papers, they are prohibited from leaving the enclave, making it impossible to take any steps with the Moroccan consulate in Algeciras.

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This irregular status, often inherited from their parents, conditions every aspect of their daily life. Access to basic education or medical care is an uphill battle. For the eldest of these young people, aged 21, pursuing vocational training or obtaining a legal work contract is strictly unthinkable, condemning her to the black market.

Lawyer Yusra Abdelatif, who voluntarily defends several affected families (including a 6-month-old baby), is multiplying appeals in vain. Faced with the systematic rejections of the administration and after the failure of a final asylum application, she recently alerted the State Secretariat for Migration and the Ombudsman to denounce this treatment.

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Today, the only hope for these phantom residents lies in the new extraordinary regularization procedure carried by the central government. However, the inclusion of a specific clause for children born in Ceuta was not retained in the latest draft of the law, threatening to keep them indefinitely in this legal void.