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Spain Fires Border Crossing - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 2nd Oct, 2005 - 3:37pm
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Spain Fires On Border Crossing
This sends a fierce message to those who would cross borders illegally ...
https://thescotsman.scotsman.com/internatio...m?id=2015282005
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| Migrants shot trying to cross into Spanish enclave TWO of five Africans killed when hundreds of migrants charged a razor-wire fence while trying to cross into a Spanish enclave in Morocco had bullet wounds, indicating they were shot from the Moroccan side of the fence, according to reports yesterday. Sources close to the Spanish investigation reportedly said bullets had passed through the side of one immigrant and through the buttock of the other. They said the trajectory meant that they could only have been fired from Morocco. Spain ordered troops to its two enclaves in northern Morocco to bolster security and to try to ward off more waves of immigrants. |
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| On Tuesday alone, two separate groups of 500 rushed the frontier at Melilla, and Spain says about 300 made it in. Last year there were seven such attempts, but so far this year the number is up to around 25, including nine since the end of August. "In the last few days we have had a different phenomenon, an avalanche of immigrants not seen before that surely has circumstantial causes that we will combat," Zapatero said Thursday. At least three Africans died in recent crossings, but Thursday's deaths were the first to include reports of gunfire. |
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Crossing Border Fires Spain
Protection and maintenance of borders are one of the primary purposes of any government. I think that the Spanish did exactly as they should do. I just wish our government would do the same.
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