An undocumented sub-Saharan avails for the first time … – The World

An undocumented sub-Saharan avails for the first time … – The World

Temporary Centre Immigrant (CETI) in Ceuta has been the week from the first undocumented sub-Saharan origin of the autonomous city leaving voluntarily without in his case being any police or judicial problem to return to their country of origin. Issa Balde , a native of Guinea Bissau , has returned to the Peninsula to, mediated by a non-governmental organization (NGO) to return to his hometown, Bafata , a city in the center of the country and famous for its natural resources.

Speaking to Europa Press just before leaving the CETI of Ceuta, where he arrived on June 5 from Algeciras , Balde explained that “life is tough in Europe when you have no job “and that things” are increasingly difficult “in Spain. “At least in my country, with my family, I eat and sleep in a house,” claims the young age of 29.

Guinean first came to Spain in 2011 aboard a rowboat with which crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from the Moroccan coast with half a dozen other sub-Saharan migrants . In the town of Cadiz was admitted to the Center for Foreigners (CIE). Two months later he traveled to Almería , and where one of his brothers lived. “At that time it was already very difficult to find work and had to sleep on the street, passing many hardships,” recalls Balde, which is being handled better in Portuguese, his native language, which in Castilian.

From Almería went to Lisbon , where he spent “over a year” without better prospects, and in 2013 he returned to the Andalusian region, which last June decided to abandon the intention to continue in reverse the same route that had brought him to Europe through Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Algeria and Morocco .

“I bought the boat ticket with my voting card Guinea, crossed the Strait and went to the border Tarajal , but Morocco I prevented the passage, “Balde says that” stunned “was” trapped “in the autonomous city, unable to exit or north or south.

“I do not regret anything I’ve done,” warns the Guinean immigrant, who agreed to his admission to the CETI and the initiation of expulsion proceedings of Spanish territory that finally, with the collaboration of a NGOs, detailed police sources, has allowed her to move to the Peninsula prior to its departure flight back to Guinea Bissau step.

Central Government in June opened the call for grants for the development of programs for voluntary return of immigrants and asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection, statelessness and temporary protection for a maximum of 2.4 million euros . Supported programs are co-financed by the European Fund for the Return and its execution time includes the period from the date of the decision granting the subsidy and June 30, 2015.