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Moroccan Taxi Drivers Sentenced Over Ceuta Border Crisis | San Antonio News
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Seven Moroccan taxi drivers face up to six months in jail and $1,070 fines for aiding illegal crossings into Ceuta and driving without permits — a landmark ruling amid a migrant surge fueled by social media rumors and economic desperation. Sentenced without lawyers due to a strike, they’re now appealing as human rights groups report over 100 others detained. Taxi unions call the penalties “shocking and harsh,” arguing these drivers were simply offering essential transport — a public service under chaotic conditions. Meanwhile, Europol’s earlier Mediterranean crackdown nabbed 78 traffickers moving migrants, drugs, and weapons across Spain and Algeria — a grim backdrop to the border crisis that claimed over 80 lives and left thousands of minors stranded.
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