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Spain: Cooperation with Guinea Bissau in exchange for expulsions:

01 January 2003

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On 7 February 2003, the Spanish government signed two conventions, for bilateral cooperation and for the repatriation of illegal immigrants. The Spanish government is seeking to make the expulsion of third country nationals easier, and to commit the governments of their countries of origin to this policy. Sub-Saharan countries are some of the most frequent countries of origin of persons who try to reach the Spanish coast in dinghies. In the last five years the arrival of people from Guinea Bissau increased by 300%. Similar conventions were signed in 2002 with Poland, the Dominican Republic, Romania and Algeria, and are about to be concluded with Senegal, Cape Verde and Ghana.

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