Daily Briefing Current Affairs

A Visa Approved the Same Day She Drowned Without One

Faten Ben Omar El Azizi, who played women's football in Morocco, drowned last month while attempting to swim across the Morocco-Ceuta border into Spanish territory, one of approximately 141 people who died or went missing at that border during the same period. Her death has renewed a long-running debate over the language used to describe migration, with migration scholar Nicholas De Genova's argument - that migrant…