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Article: Morocco's biggest European export: people; Thousands flood Spain annually, fueling the economy and raising security concerns.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 29, 2005
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Byline: Lisa Abend and Geoff Pingree Correspondents of The Christian Science Monitor
RABAT, MOROCCO AND MADRID -- Omar was 17 when he stole aboard a freight truck in Tangier, Morocco. Determined to find a different life, he burrowed into the truck's cargo - piles of women's underwear - to hide.
Soon, he discovered another boy, also seeking passage out of Morocco, hiding there. As the truck boarded the ferry to cross the straits of Gibraltar, border police caught that young man. Omar went undetected. Within hours he was in Murcia, where he joined the hundreds of thousands of Moroccans who have immigrated illegally to Spain.
Just eight watery ...