Moroccan parents abandon their children in the Basque Country to become MENA.
The Biscay Provincial Council warns that families from Morocco arrive by plane as tourists and leave their children in reception centres. They aren't even poor.
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The news published on this 20th of September by The Post It highlights a phenomenon that the Basque authorities and those in other places have already detected previously: Moroccan parents who leave their children with the intention of them being looked after by the child protection system..
Moroccan middle-class families
The profile of these unaccompanied minors is not the usual one. They are not boys from remote villages in Morocco or Algeria or the children of shepherds. Some come from Casablanca, Tinghir and other municipalities. They even come from middle-class families, in”with political parents or lawyers," explains the newspaper.
These families arrive in Bilbao by their own means, sometimes by plane and with a tourist visa, and They leave minors to enter support centres and benefit from the county's support network..
From the plane to the police station with instructions
The phenomenon includes detailed practices. According to the account. The Post, many of these minors arrive chastened: hide the passport or visa for 90 days to avoid their situation being discovered And suddenly the CNIE (the Moroccan national identity document) appears. The strategy is to take advantage of the holidays to visit Bilbao and before returning. They show them where the police station is and teach them the magic words. “Minor, police!” or they make them a sign with the phrase «I am an unaccompanied minor. I need help.”.
Other strategies include claiming they crossed the Strait in a dinghy and reached Euskadi by bus. The police admit they know it's a lie because there would be records, but they can't do anything about it.
A spokesperson for the Moroccan community in Biscay confirms it to El Correo: «I know of a few cases, I'm aware of them.«. As he explains, the parents want to offer them a better education and healthcare. He also confesses that they are not poor: «These are families with an affluent financial situation who are granted visas to travel with their children. for tourism. It's not given to everyone: one of the requirements is to prove income and have a job.».
Resourceful families and children with high expectations
This new profile of minors also surprises by its appearance: “Some arrive with braces, an iPhone in their pocket and €100 Adidas trainers. Some girls sport piercings and gold jewellery.”, explain internal sources. An educator quoted by the newspaper highlights the difference: “Now we have a very good group of lads with a certain level of spending power. Gold dust for us. Not only do they not cause any problems, but they help us.”.
Even so, some arrive with expectations that are too high: They complain about the clothes and the food in the centres., and expect a standard of living that the asylum system cannot guarantee.
Mafia suspected behind the «free Erasmus» phenomenon»
The local authorities suspect that this practice is not spontaneous. Sources at the Provincial Council suggest that it could there are trafficking mafias acting as intermediaries and that give families instructions on how to get their children admitted to the protection network. These networks would have become normalised in some municipalities of origin, where The parents assume that leaving the minors on the other side of the Strait guarantees them an education and healthcare that they cannot provide in their own country..
From Biscay, some social officials compare the situation with “a free Erasmus”a kind of parallel route to access European public services. The arrival of successive siblings, large families and well-prepared minors fuels the sense that this is a growing and organised phenomenon.. Despite the difficulties in uncovering each case, the combination of family interests and potential intermediaries raises fears that this practice is becoming established as a new covert migration route.
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