Spain: Children as a Means to an End | Focus on Europe

Every year, thousands of African refugees try to enter Europe via the Spanish exclave of Melilla. Many of them bring children with them in an effort to evoke sympathy if they are stopped, but often those children aren't their own. Human traffickers regularly sell children to illegal immigrants. Spanish authorities say the flood of desperate refugees has grown dramatically in the past year.

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