Illegal workforce: 40 Moroccans arrested in western Algeria

Estimates released by the national gendarmerie reveal that 40 Moroccan illegal immigrants penetrated the Algerian soil during the first quarter of this year, pushed by starvation and very hard social conditions to leave their homeland.

They were all put in prison as a preventive measure awaiting their final transfer to Morocco .

 The number of Moroccan immigrants who illegally entered the Algerian soil, reached 90 last year. The main drives of this mass immigration were, according to sources, the harsh living conditions in their country.

Indeed, many Moroccan families are counting on the money gained by those who crossed the Algerian borders to meet both ends. They mainly work on construction sites illegally, but generally are arrested by the Algerian authorities to be deported to their home country.