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The Special Rapporteur warns of a risk of contradiction between the migration control
programmes and policies under the responsibility of the Ministry of the Interior, and the
assistance, education and integration programmes and policies under the responsibility of the
Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. While it would appear appropriate that integration
programmes should be implemented at the local level, the Special Rapporteur notes that the
Autonomous Communities and the local governments, especially in the large cities and the
Canaries, Ceuta and Melilla, have to devote most of their resources to assistance to illegal
migrants. In addition, their efforts to achieve integration are frustrated by the obstacles which
their situation of illegality places in the way of the full integration of migrants. She also noted the
limited extent of coordination in migration matters between the three levels of government –
central, Autonomous Community and local.
The Special Rapporteur considers that frontier control per se does not ensure the orderly
and dignified management of migration. In the context of the European Union, the question of
migration should be the subject of an ongoing dialogue with the countries of origin. The focus on
safe, orderly and dignified migration should be reflected in a dialogue with the countries of origin
which goes beyond employment matters. The Special Rapporteur considers that, in the case of
Morocco, it is essential that the dialogue between the two Governments should be a dialogue of
equals, sister countries, neighbouring and sovereign, with common interests. The focus of this
dialogue should be on the prevention of illegal migration and co-development in the countries of
origin; greater international cooperation efforts are needed to dismantle the criminal networks
engaged in the trafficking and smuggling of migrants.