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Date Published: 17/05/2021
ARCHIVED - At least 20 irregular immigrants detained in Torre Pacheco raids
Police officers raided eight bars on Calle San Cayetano following reports about illegal activity
At least 20 immigrants, all alleged to be illegal, were detained during a raid on Friday (May 14) night in Torre Pacheco, which took place in eight different bars on Calle San Cayetano in the centre of the town.
Officers from the Policía Local and from the Provincial Immigration Brigade of the Policía Nacional arrived at the scene at around 8 pm and cut off the street to facilitate the raids.
The operation was initiated due to several complaints from residents in the area about illegal activity in some establishments, such as drug use and disturbances of public order, as well as suspicions that many of those frequenting the bars had no legal status in Spain.
In addition to detaining several people, the officers also charged some of the individuals with drug use and infraction of anti-covid measures, as the police found customers smoking shishas and failing to observe social distancing rules.
One of the establishments was also found to lack the necessary trading licences.
The individuals who were arrested had allegedly failed to comply with Immigration Laws and allegedly lacked a residency permit in Spain and, because of this, they could now face expulsion from the country. Some of those detained could even be temporarily admitted to the Immigration Internment Centre in Murcia.
During the past few months the authorities have been engaged in a major clamp-down on illicit activity within the international community, focusing particularly on the illegal workers in the agricultural sector, which mainly employs illegal Moroccan and Algerian nationals, many of whom have arrived in Spain via the "pateras" or small boats which are regularly reported as crossing the Mediterranean from Algeria and Morocco.
Although the authorities attempt to repatriate as many of these irregular migrants as they can, it is impossible to prove the origin of many of them as they lack documentary paperwork, so after failing to deport them, they have to be released under EU law. As their arrival is organised by criminal gangs, they usually drift into the local communities in which their own nationals live, finding illegal employment in sectors which require manual labourers, normally agriculture, cleaning or construction, often in appalling conditions, for low wages.
There have been some shocking cases of abuse within these illegal communities highlighted within the last few months and the regional authorities are determined to clamp down on those giving illegal employment to irregular migrants in an attempt to dissuade further migrants from making the journey across the Mediterranean and entering Spain illegally.
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