African Migrants Stream to Spanish Enclaves
MELILLA, Spain—On a recent morning, about 150 men, most hailing from West Africa, hiked down a Moroccan hillside, scaled a set of 20-foot-high fences and jumped onto the soil of Melilla, a small swath of Spanish territory on Africa's Mediterranean coast.
Raymond Persie twisted his ankle when he hit the ground and ended up in the custody of Spanish police. Yet those stumbles didn't cripple his dream of working in Europe and sending money home to his father and younger brother.
That is because under EU law, member states are barred from using force to keep out migrants and must allow those who gain entry to apply for political asylum. . . .
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