EU Funds Mauritania's Refugee Wall, Calls It 'Migration Management'
Mauritania is violently deporting African migrants, clearing its northern border towns. Al Jazeera details the human cost, but glosses over the architect: the European Union. Spain, backed by €210 million ($226 million USD) from the EU, struck a deal with Mauritania in February 2024 to curb migration. So, while European leaders decry humanitarian crises, they are actively funding the creation of
new ones, pushing desperate people into the desert instead of providing safe passage. It appears 'migration management' is the new euphemism for paying poorer nations to brutalize migrants away from European shores. How many times can Europe outsource its moral obligations before someone notices the pattern? (And when will we stop pretending this is about anything other than wealthy nations
protecting their borders from the poor they often exploit?)