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Today, how North African nations round up thousands of migrants and dump them in the desert.

The whole point is that they make people live in a constant state of discomfort and fear.

A new investigation documents systemic police abuse against people migrating to Europe, all with the backing of a not-so-silent partner, the European Union.

I'm Kevin Horton, and this is the take.

June 20th marks World Refugee Day.

It's a day meant to celebrate the strength and the courage

of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.

But in that celebration, there's a gray area, people seeking refuge who may not meet the legal definition of refugee, asylum seekers, and migrants.

Meanwhile, migration management is front and center, particularly in North

Africa. The European Union has asked North African countries to do more to stop migrants

headed north to Europe. They get picked up off the streets, detained, and banished in the middle

of nowhere. I'm reporting live from the desert, and as you can see, this is the convoy going over there,

and it's a massive convoy massively deported blocks to unknown men's land.

Where anything can happen, you've got women and children into these trucks.

Now, though, we know what's happening, and crucially, who's footing the bill.

My name is Beatrice Ramar de Silva, and I'm an investigative reporter at Lighthouse Reports. I'm based in

Barcelona. And Lighthouse Reports is a collaborative investigative newsroom. We led this investigation along with A Media Partners and reporting journalists over the course

of a year.

Thank you very much, Beatrice.

Maybe we start with one man's story to help illustrate this phenomenon of desert dumps.

He's a 38-year-old Cameroonian man named Francois. Can you tell us his

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