The view into Spain from Mount Gourougou, Morocco on October 12. Men and girls making an attempt to cross the border from Morocco into Spain typically spend days and typically weeks hiding from authorities on the mountain earlier than they take their probability.

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The view into Spain from Mount Gourougou, Morocco on October 12. Men and girls making an attempt to cross the border from Morocco into Spain typically spend days and typically weeks hiding from authorities on the mountain earlier than they take their probability.

Ricci Shryock for NPR

Some individuals spend years attempting to get to Nador, Morocco — a metropolis within the northeast of the nation, bordering the Spanish enclave metropolis of Melilla.

It is Europe’s southernmost border, and likewise a gateway for migrants in quest of higher alternatives.

Border guards line a four-tiered, 20-foot fence that stretches miles alongside the border. Just past are the hills of Nador, the place the migrants stay. They wait there for weeks, typically months, for the most secure time to leap over the fence.

Officials have made town of Nador uninhabitable for migrants, who’re principally Black. Shopkeepers have been pressured to not promote them items, lodge homeowners who’ve succumbed to strain from Moroccan police do not hire them rooms.

Police techniques gained renewed criticism after dozens of individuals have been killed attempting to leap the fence in June.

Migrating individuals and their allies describe detestable and racist remedy from Moroccan police. They additionally converse of their desires of crossing the border and discovering jobs to assist their households.

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