President Trump suggested building a wall across the Sahara to solve Europe’s migrant crisis, Spain’s foreign minister said yesterday cited by the BBC.
Josep Borrell, also a former President of the European Parliament, disagreed with the strategy. The comments were made during a visit Borrell made to the US in June.
Borrell recounted his conversation with the US president at a lunch event in Madrid this week, Spain’s foreign ministry confirmed to the BBC.
“The border with the Sahara cannot be bigger than our border with Mexic,” Borrell quoted Trump as saying.
The US-Mexico border is 3,145 km long. The Sahara desert stretches for 3,000 miles.
Spain has no sovereignty over the Sahara, but it does possess two small enclaves on the north African coast, Ceuta and Melilla, separated from Morocco by controversial wire fences.
Since January of this year, 35,000 migrants arrived in Spain, the highest number received by any EU country. (See page 14-15)
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