STORY SUMMARY
Morocco on Thursday launched an operation to give residency permits to tens of thousands of immigrants living in the country illegally, after the king expressed concern about their harsh treatment by the police.
Hundreds of people, almost all of them sub-Saharan Africans, queued outside the governor’s office in Rabat hoping to get their papers, which would officially allow them to reside and work in Morocco.
George, a 27-year-old from Senegal, was one of those queuing outside the governor’s office in Rabat on Thursday to apply for a residency permit.
He said he arrived in Morocco illegally 11 years ago, and has been deported to the border “several times”.
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