Spain needs safe borders.
We need to build a wall tall enough so that the border cannot be jumped.
You spend your billions on building barriers
and people are dying in the countries on the other side.
It's total stupidity.
When I saw that barbed wire with blades
I could barely believe it.
We already have a fence, we have a very dangerous fence.
For me it's a terrible symbol for Europe.
My name's Aboubacar Camara.
I'm 31 and I come from Ivory Coast.
My name is Jesús Francisco Delgado Aboy.
I've been rightwing my whole life.
My name is Youssra Tirari. I'm from Nador [in Morocco].
I'm 20 years old.
Fifty-two sub-Saharan immigrants successfully entered Melilla today
after around 100 people attempted to jump the fence en masse.
It took place at 6 o'clock this morning in a border area near the airport.
Five people were injured, four of them civil guard officers.
One of the immigrants was detained.
Asylum! Asylum!
Hey, Pepe!
I wash cars to have a few cents in my pocket.
We're in a temporary camp so there's no official work to get by.
I can make three to five euros for each car I was like this.
Europe isn't El Dorado.
You have to be active in everything you do.
You have to man up.
When you leave your home, you have to be a man.
Hey Pepe, where's the motorbike?
The borders are extremely dangerous.
Our brothers have died in the water, at the fence, in boats.
When you want something, it doesn't matter where, you just find a way through.
So this is where it happened? Yes, all along here.
They've cut it here with pliers and jumped over from there.
Basically, yes. You can see the jump's not very difficult.
Not at all, it's extremely easy.
This is the stupidest thing of the century.
This is absurd.
The Spanish right has risen again to defend and bring back our traditions,
to bring back our love for our flag, our anthem,
and for our religious and social traditions.
We want Spain to be what it once was.
Make Spain great again.
My destination was never Melilla.
It was to go to mainland Europe directly.
I left Ivory Coast in 2015.
The desert between Mali and Algeria is no joke.
There were mafias that trafficked people to Europe.
Those sons of bitches - excuse me - who get you across the deserts there are not human.
A friend I made in Mali, a Malian, died in my arms.
I tried several times to get out of Morocco but had no luck.
I spent at least a year and a half in the forest.
I tried paddling on a raft, in Tangiers.
And at the barrier at Ceuta, I tried that at least three times.
I only had to try Melilla once, by swimming.
The civil guard uses a heartbeat detection device
that tells us if there's a living being inside a vehicle.
Any place is valid for the mafias,
from the gas tank, the floor of the trunk, the base of the car,
to the engine, of even the dashboard.
Confined in a place with fumes and very high temperatures, a person's life is at risk.
We have had up to a thousand people trying to jump in an organised way,
in different areas, and at the same time.
It has been extremely difficult to maintain security.
I was asleep and I heard the noise.
When I got up to take a shower, I saw them.
They're immigrants like me.
They entered yesterday.
This is the video I made when I arrived in Melilla.
When your brother escapes from suffering, you can only be happy for him.
You know what they've left behind, what they've journeyed across.
So, it's a moment of joy.
Even if you spend billions and billions,
even if you build a barrier all the way up to the sky,
people will always get in.
This isn't the solution to stop immigration.
The solution is to understand why these immigrants leave their countries.
All of Africa has been spoilt.
So when you spoil somewhere, you need to understand
that the people you've left there in the shit will one day show up at your door.
I believe building a wall would not solve the problem,
it would only force migrants to take more difficult and dangerous routes
which would cause more suffering and deaths.
Spain as a southern border has a very important role,
last year we received the most migrants in the whole European Union,
but at the same time, this number is pretty manageable
by Spain and Europe as a whole.
The current minister of interior announced that he would remove razor wire
from the fence,
the fact is that the Moroccan side does have razor wires
so in practical terms, it would be more or less the same.
Morocco is basically protecting Spain so there's a Spanish responsibility
of that side as well.
Spain has to continue to comply with its obligations in terms of human rights,
and be a welcoming country as it's always been.
There are tons of illegal immigrants here.
Sub-Saharans, there are people from everywhere.
Look, they're over there almost inside the border.
Well, so this is our beloved border.
We are proposing that it be a totally intelligent border,
totally permeable to what we want, and totally impermeable to what we don't want.
This city has always been the most Spanish city in all of Spain.
And now we see it deteriorating and 'Moroccanising' at a dizzying speed.
Right now I'm working as a porter at Barrio Chino [checkpoint] in Melilla.
We porters carry loads containing new or old clothes and maybe other goods across the border.
You can be waiting for more than two hours
and to be honest, you get really bored.
There's nothing to protect you from the sun and the rain.
I'd like to stop, but right now I can't.
This portering is scandalous.
What the government here calls 'non-typical commerce'
I call cold hard smuggling.
It needs to be eradicated.
Mum and I have no alternative but to work
because we don't have much money
and because my father isn't living with us.
A big part of Nador's population survives on portering.
It would be a big problem if it stopped
because there are no companies or factories here to provide jobs.
In the future I'd like to be a teacher or a tourist guide.
After three months we can get salida.
Salida means leaving Melilla.
The destination for everyone is Malaga.
And after, each goes on to a different city.
Good luck.
These are my boys.
They're good boys.
Salida!
I am happy right now.
Right now I am very, very happy
because I'm finally leaving Melilla after five months.
But I'm a little sad because my sister is staying.
I personally feel a bit sad but also happy to see my brothers leaving.
I know that my day will come. That's it.
This is the migrant's life.