According to Spanish news agency “Eve”, about 7000 Moroccan citizens are seasonal workers in the fields of Spain are losing their jobs, which would present a real problem with Spain’s adherence to closing its borders until the pandemic situation eases.
7000 Moroccans will find themselves without work at the beginning of next June and without the ability to return to Morocco in light of the ongoing procedures to close the borders, in complete absence to suggest the possibility of deporting them to Morocco on an exceptional basis.
The same source reported that 3000 Moroccan workers (out of 7000) will end their duties in the red fruit fields in the first week of next month, while the rest of the workers will gradually end their duties in the following weeks.
In case a agreement between the governments of the two countries is not reached for the issue of seasonal workers, then they will be enrolled in a list of 31.800 Moroccan suspects abroad, up to the hourly limits, making the total of the stranded about 40.
It is worth noting that the Moroccan government brought back 500 Moroccan suspects from the occupied cities of Ceuta and Melilla to the Moroccan interior.
Today, Akhbar Al-Youm, indicated that the Spanish agricultural enterprises want to throw the ball of Moroccan workers in the Spanish government’s court in light of the approaching date of the end of the red fruit harvest, as it was expected that the harvest will end this year early.
Spanish farmers do not want to bear the costs of setting up, feeding and protecting the 7000 Moroccan workers who were lucky to cross before the borders were closed, while another 10.000 workers were fortunate. Seasonal work in the Spanish fields is an important annual livelihood for thousands of Moroccan families.
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