Migrant surge on Spain-Morocco border brings more suffering

Badreddine, left, 22, Salah, center, 22 and Hosam, 24, pose for a photo as they wait for a chance to cross to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from the northern town of Fnideq, Morocco, Thursday, May 20, 2021. An extraordinary surge of migrants seeking to leave Morocco for Spain this week has left the border town suffering under the strain. “We will keep trying. We will find one way or another, even if the ocean turns into ice!” said 27-year-old Badreddine. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

FILE - In this May 19, 2021, file photo, Moroccan youth run for cover as they clash with Moroccan security forces while trying to cross to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Fnideq, Morocco. Thousands of would-be migrants converged on Fnideq this week, part of an extraordinary mass effort to swim or scale barbed-wire fences to get into Spain for a chance at a new life. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2021, file photo, Moroccans in the town of Fnideq, northern Morocco, chant slogans during a protest of the economic situation and the closure of the border with the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. An extraordinary surge of migrants seeking to leave Morocco for Spain has left the border town suffering under the strain. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

FILE - In this May 18, 2021, file photo, people sit at a restaurant overlooking a forest where migrants are seen on their way to the border of Morocco and Spain. An extraordinary surge of migrants seeking to leave Morocco for Spain this week has left the border town of Fnideq, Morocco, suffering under the strain. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Moroccan boys swim from the Moroccan border town of Fnideq toward the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Thousands of would-be migrants converged on the Moroccan border town of Fnideq this week, part of an extraordinary mass effort to swim or scale barbed-wire fences to get into Spain for a chance at a new life. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

A man walks past a mostly empty central market in the northern border town of Fnideq, Morocco, Thursday, May 20, 2021. An extraordinary surge of migrants seeking to leave Morocco for Spain this week has left Fnideq suffering under the strain. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Would-be migrants sleep in a roundabout on the street as they wait for a chance to cross to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from the northern town of Fnideq, Morocco, Thursday, May 20, 2021. An extraordinary surge of migrants seeking to leave Morocco for Spain this week has left Fnideq suffering under the strain. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Families wait for the return of their children after they crossed to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from the northern town of Fnideq, Morocco, Thursday, May 20, 2021. An extraordinary surge of migrants seeking to leave Morocco for Spain this week has left Fnideq suffering under the strain. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Police patrol a hill near the border in Fnideq, Morocco, for migrants trying to cross to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on Thursday, May 20, 2021. An extraordinary surge of migrants seeking to leave Morocco for Spain this week has left Fnideq suffering under the strain. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)

Would-be migrants take shelter near a mosque as they wait for a chance to cross to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from the northern town of Fnideq, Morocco, Thursday, May 20, 2021. An extraordinary surge of migrants seeking to leave Morocco for Spain this week has left the border town suffering under the strain. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

FILE - In this May 19, 2021, file photo, unaccompanied minors who crossed into Spain are gathered outside a warehouse used as temporary shelter as they wait to be tested for COVID-19 at the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, near the border of Morocco and Spain. More than 8,000 people sought to cross into Ceuta amid a diplomatic spat between the two countries, and more than half were forced back into Morocco. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

FILE - In this May 18, 2021, file photo, people climb a fence in the area at the Spain-Morocco border, outside the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Thousands of would-be migrants converged on the Moroccan border town of Fnideq this week, part of an extraordinary mass effort to swim or scale barbed-wire fences to get into Spain for a chance at a new life. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

People cross a forest in the border town of Fnideq in northern Morocco on their way to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. An extraordinary surge of migrants seeking to leave Morocco for Spain this week has left Fnideq suffering under the strain. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Ayoub and Khalid pose for a photo as they wait for a chance to cross the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from the northern town of Fnideq, Morocco, Thursday, May 20, 2021. “I am the eldest of my brothers, my mother sells vegetable in the market” and can’t afford to support them, said Ayoub, in his early 20s, who arrived Thursday from the inland city of Meknes. “I had to try and help my mother.” (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)