Here follow some figures on the Kingdom’s extensive efforts to combat illegal migration.
– Over 360,000 illegal migration attempts have been thwarted since 2017.
- Since 2018, more than 8,100 African nationals have benefited from voluntary returns organized and financed by the Ministry of the Interior by both air and land.
– Around 2,400 people returned in 2021 and over 1,100 in 2020 as part of voluntary returns.
– Morocco’s Royal Navy rescued almost 15,000 people at sea in 2021 and 2,384 in 2022.
– 1,300 networks dismantled over the past 5 years.
– Arrest of 32,733 would-be illegal immigrants, including 28,146 foreigners of various nationalities.
- Dismantling of 92 criminal networks involved in clandestine organization.
– Arrest of 566 organizers and intermediaries, an increase of over 36% compared with 2021, in addition to the arrest of 415 organizers of illegal immigration.
– Seizure of 832 false travel or identity documents, 193 boats, 156 marine engines and 61 vehicles used in the organization of migration operations.
– Some 50,000 migrants have regularized their situation thanks to the exceptional operation to regularize the situation of immigrants in Morocco, held in 2014 and 2017.
