The Vision of Moroccan Repatriation

They want them!

Another interview with another foreign politician has caught our attention.

In March of 2024 Malika Lehyan, a Moroccan parliamentarian (MP) and member of the nationalist Istiqlal Party (which is part of the governing coalition), gave an interview in which she stated that it was a priority to enable the repatriation of Moroccans from Europe back to the desert Kingdom.

Ms. Lehyan stated that it was her priority to push forward with a plan that will attract the Moroccan diaspora back to the country because it is in need of educated workers, fresh investment, and more economic growth. Lehyan went on to claim that the economic and social boom which could be created by a returning diaspora would be preferable to the remittances the nation regularly receives from Europe-based Moroccans. The parliamentarian also stated that she was introducing legislation to speed up and simplify this repatriation process and that she believed her policies would soon become law.

Much like with El Salvador, the White nations of the world should be paying attention to these developments and should begin working with Moroccans like Malika Lehyan to ensure that her legislation passes with broad support from Western governments. In fact, Lehyan explicitly mentions that she would welcome collaboration from European nations to bring about this massive return of Morocco’s diaspora, and she thanked the European nations who have hosted them all this time.

Lehyan’s vision is an expansive one. She wants to offer returning Moroccans ample investment opportunities, make it easier for them to open businesses, create a government service to shepherd returning Moroccans through this process and have this diaspora contribute to the King’s modernization goals for the nation.

The goal of the legislation is to clear up uncertainty about the remigration process and to reassure the Moroccan diaspora that should they return home there will be ample investment and socially mobile opportunities for them. And there would be ample opportunity. Morocco ranks poorly in international education statistics, while Moroccans in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands have much higher levels of education attainment (though they are nowhere close to the levels of the native White populations).

Malika Lehyan’s vision is fantastic, and we endorse it fully. But, Morocco cannot do it alone. White nations, especially those with a large and problematic Moroccan diaspora, must contribute to this process and ensure that repatriation is a “win-win” for both sides (a goal of Lehyan’s which is mentioned in the article).

One of Morocco’s most dire issues is that the country is deeply dependent on energy imports, costing the country significant amounts of money each year. The nation is also experiencing an entrenched housing crisis and its leadership is having trouble implementing a nationwide internet accessibility policy.

Benefits for the West:

While Morocco clearly believes that inviting its diaspora home would be a positive development, it is truly European nations and White peoples who would benefit.

Moroccans constitute the second largest ethnic group in the Netherlands (behind the native Dutch) with a population of some 420,000 as of 2022. Likewise, Moroccans are a significant demographic presence in Belgium and sport a population numbering some 600,000 in the country. Another 1.6 million Moroccans call France home and some 1 million more Moroccans live in Spain.

These Moroccans, often the descendants of “guest workers” and recent illegal immigrants, are a severe drag on continental Europe. In late 2022, Moroccans rioted in Belgium and the Netherlands when their national team (meaning the Moroccan team) defeated the Belgian team at the World Cup. The rioting racial foreigners caused millions of dollars in damages and injured several police officers. In some Moroccan neighborhoods in the Netherlands, the youth crime rate was once 50%, and many families participated in sheltering members of the Moroccan mafia. Likewise, Moroccan mafias in the Netherlands and Belgium control more than a third of Europe’s drug trade and are responsible for dozens of killings, both deliberate and random, each year.

The cost goes far beyond criminality, though. Moroccan immigrants are impoverishing the Netherlands and serving as a severe drain on Dutch taxpayers. A NYFER study from the mid-2000s found that each Moroccan immigrant to the country costs the Dutch taxpayer some 54,800 Euros over the course of a lifetime, while an infant Moroccan immigrant or descendant who arrives or is born in the Netherlands will cost the Dutch taxpayer some 200,000 Euros throughout its lifetime.

Another longitudinal study by the University of Amsterdam found that all post-1995 immigration has had a net negative budgetary effect of some €400 billion on the Dutch state. This figure represents 73.6% of the Netherlands’ current national debt of some €543 billion.

Repatriating Moroccans would break up these ethnic networks, rid Europe of massive levels of crime, and be an economic boon to both regions.

Western Policy Response:

Western states and peoples wishing to repatriate their large Moroccan populations must put together a policy suite that can encourage Moroccans to repatriate in the same way that Morocco seeks to encourage the diaspora.

The first step in this process will be to assist Morocco in dealing with its incredible energy demands and its clean water shortage. Morocco recently applied to the International Monetary Fund for a financing arrangement so that the nation can build desalination plants and solar power plants. Western nations could contribute billions to these projects in exchange for Morocco agreeing to take back its criminally convicted diaspora population, saving White countries both money and heartache in the long run. Morocco currently spends $3.4bn on oil and energy subsidies for its population each year, or about a third of its annual budget deficit.

Instead, American, British, and Dutch oil giants could discount fossil fuel exports to such a degree that this subsidy is no longer necessary on the part of the Moroccan government. In exchange Western states must demand that Morocco take back its citizens and diaspora deported for lawbreaking or visa overstaying - without delay. Morocco is currently listed as a recalcitrant and uncooperative state that refuses to work with European authorities who try to deport Moroccans. This must change in exchange for support.

Finally, European states should ensure that Moroccans relocating to their homeland are able to do so with minimum red tape. Moroccans looking to move vehicles, furniture, and other goods should be exempt from taxation. The complicated paperwork process to export these goods should be suspended for departing Moroccans, and any Moroccans on state benefits should be allowed to remain on those benefits for up to 6 months after departing Europe.

Logistics:

Another concern often cited when discussing repatriation is the supposed impossibility of moving such large volumes of people.

We can happily report that Morocco already runs a sizeable repatriation operation each year. The Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity undertakes Operation Marhaba each year, coordinating the return of 1-3 million Moroccans from Europe so that they can spend the summer in their hometowns and villages. The Foundation provides medical staff, financial assistance, 24/7 hotlines, and help in booking transit to the country.

Morocco coordinates heavily with Spain during this operation and other European countries have expressed an interest in participating.

It is quite evident that Morocco has all the necessary logistical infrastructure in place to permanently repatriate its countrymen from Europe.

Conclusion:

Morocco wants its diaspora to return home, rather than to invite immigrants because it wishes to maintain its identity. Malika Lehyan explicitly mentions that her nation should not follow the European example and should instead preserve its ethnic and cultural identity in an increasingly global world.

Europeans, for their part, increasingly wish to have more cohesive and homogeneous societies. Parties seeking to lower immigration and reverse demographic change are on the rise across Europe. Geert Wilders has already won in the Netherlands on past promises of “fewer Moroccans” while Marine Le Pen is on the cusp of government in France. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK put forward a platform that could see millions of non-Whites leave the United Kingdom and restore the demographic balance of that nation.

Morocco and the West clearly have similar goals and desires, it is only the governments of White countries that, for now, refuse to represent the will(s) of the White public.

There are opportunities to build new alliances around the issue of repatriation and reversing the demographic trends in the West.

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