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Sub-Saharan migrants climb over a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Friday March 28, 2014. Several hundred African migrants tried to cross barbed-wire border fences to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco but most were blocked by Moroccan police or pushedback by the Spanish Guardia Civil as a handful managed to remain in European soil. In early 2014 thousands of migrants seeking a better life who couldn't afoard to pay to cross the Mediterranean sea aboard a rubber raft to get to Europe, were living illegally in the forests of north Morocco hoping they could enter Melilla and Spain's other north African coastal enclave, Ceuta. (© Santi Palacios)
Sub-Saharan migrants scale a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla, early in the morning on Wednesday, May 28, 2014. More than 400 African migrants managed to jump the barbed-wire border fence in SpainÌs North African enclave of Melilla, hundreds of others were blocked and beaten back by Moroccan police while the rest were pushedback by the Spanish Guardia Civil. During the pre-dawn border storming, cries of pain and noises of people being hit could be heard as police from both sides tried to prevent dozens of the sub-Saharan migrants from entering the city from Morocco. (© Santi Palacios)
A sub-Saharan migrant sits on top of a pole set in a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. He was pushedback to Morroco by the Spanish Guardia Civil after spending hours on top of that pole inside Spanish soil, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. More than 400 African migrants managed to jump the barbed-wire border fence in SpainÌs North African enclave of Melilla, hundreds of others were blocked and beaten back by Moroccan police while the rest were pushedback by the Spanish Guardia Civil. During the pre-dawn border storming, cries of pain and noises of people being hit could be heard as police from both sides tried to prevent dozens of the sub-Saharan migrants from entering the city from Morocco. (© Santi Palacios)
A couple embraces right after after crossing the Aegean sea aboard a rubber boat, with other refugees from the Middle East, from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. The International Organization for Migration said that week a record number of people had crossed the Mediterranean into Europe, topping a half a million, with some 388,000 entering via Greece. (© Santi Palacios)
Men cover themselves with thermal blankets after crossing the Aegean Sea aboard a rubber boat from the Turkish coast to the northern coast of the Greek island of Lesbos, facing extremely hard weather conditions at sea, on Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. The International Office for Migration said over that week Greece experienced the largest single weekly influx of migrants and refugees in 2015, at an average of some 9,600 per day. (© Santi Palacios)
A volunteer holds up a baby as other tries to help him awkwardly as migrants and refugees disembark from a dinghy after their arrival from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Lesbos, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015. The volunteer holding the baby is Salam Aldeen, who was absurdly acused of human traficking by Greek coastguards in January 2016 while helping on migrants rescue operations in the island of Lesbos. (© Santi Palacios)
A 11-year-old girl from Nigeria, (left), who said her mother died in Libya, cries next to her 10-year-old brother, aboard a rescue boat assisted by an NGO, after sailing for hours aboard an overcrowded rubber boat with other refugees and migrants, during a rescue operation on the Mediterranean Sea, about 23 kilometers (14 miles) north of Sabratha, Libya, on Thursday, July 28, 2016. (© Santi Palacios)
Migrants from different African nationalities rest aboard a Spanish NGO Open Arms rescue ship, as the vessel heads to the Italian island of Lampedusa, early Sunday, March 5, 2017. When I shot this pictture, a team of aid workers had already rescued more than 800 people, during a 2-weeks rescue mission in international waters, off the Libyan coast, as thousands of migrants, mostly Africans but also from Middle East and South Asia, were leaving Libya and trying to reach Europe aboard overcrowded and precarious rubber and wooden boats that could had never crossed the Mediterranean successfully. (© Santi Palacios)
Moroccans and Bangladeshis wait on an overcrowded wooden boat, as aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms approached them off the Libyan coast, Friday, Jan. 10, 2020. (© Santi Palacios)